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NASA confirms meteor streaked across Southeast sky, allegedly crashing through a house

The National Weather Service said fireballs were spotted across the Southeast, including Charleston, South Carolina, a day before the June Bootid meteor shower.

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Fireball seen across the southeastern U.S. was a meteor, NASA says

NASA has now confirmed that the mysterious fireball seen across the southeast was a meteor – weighing in at a ton and unleashing energy equal to 20 tons of TNT.

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Fireball spotted over Southeast US may have been caused by meteor

The American Meteor Society has received numerous reports of a fireball over the US Southeast on Thursday afternoon, according to reports from around the region posted on their website.

Rare 'bolide' fireball falls from sky, sightings reported across Southeast U.S.

Sightings have come from Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee. The National Weather Service station in Charleston noted the reports, saying that "satellite-based lightning detection ...

Meteor or space junk may have caused mystery 'fireball' in Southeast, officials say

Drivers across the Southeast were startled when they saw a mysterious fireball streak across the sky. Many reported shaking and hearing a sonic boom.

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What is a fireball, and how often does rare event occur? See known SC meteorites

The object, identified as a fireball, "exploded 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, unleashing an energy of about 20 tons of TNT," per CBS News.

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People reported earthquakes and fire in the sky. It was probably a meteor.

The fireball is presumed to be from a meteor fragmenting in the sky, according to meteorologists and other experts.

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