Breitbart A video shows a fireball raced through the North Carolina sky at 32,000 miles per hour on Friday evening, September 24.
One-hundred-forty-eight eyewitnesses reported seeing the fireball according to the American Meteor Society (AMS). The meteor rampaged through the atmosphere around 7:40 pm eastern time a Facebook post by NASAâs Meteor Watch explained.
The fireball became âvisible 48 miles above the ocean off Camp Lejeune, moving northeast at 32,000 miles per hour,â NASAâs post reads. âIt disintegrated 28 miles above Morehead City, after traveling 26 miles through Earthâs upper atmosphere.â
Eye witness reports collected by the AMS show that the meteor was seen as far south as Charleston, South Carolina, and as far north Frederick, Maryland.
âIt was bright and fastâŠbeautiful!â Chrissy S. wrote in her remarks to the AMS after witnessing the spectacle in Franklin, Virginia.
â3000 hours of flying experience (pilot) so bright I thought it was a firework. Never seen anything like it,â witness Edwin N. from Fayetteville, North Carolina shared with AMS.
Rebekah T. observed the fireball in Boone, NC, and wrote to AMS that âit was amazing and a little scary to see! Never seen anything like it.â
A meteoroid becomes a meteor upon entering Earthâs atmosphere at rapid speed causing the rock to create the flaming spectacle we refer to as shooting stars according to NASA. âSometimes meteors can even appear brighter than Venus â thatâs when we call them âfireballs,’â NASAâs website on meteors states. âScientists estimate that about 48.5 tons (44,000 kilograms) of meteoritic material falls on Earth each day.â
