Seven observatories around the world and 59 witnesses in New York, Maryland, Pennsylvania in the United States, and Ontario in Canada have confirmed seeing a fireball land in the early morning of November 19.
According to Live Science, the event occurred at 3:30 AM on November 19 (Eastern Time). The bright green fireball streaked across the sky in the Northeastern United States and Southeastern Canada.
A 30-second exposure captures the stunning moment of November 19 – (Photo: Dereck Bowen).
Some witnesses described it as resembling a helicopter flying silently in the sky before emitting large beams of light at night, similar to a gigantic lightning bolt. After about 10 seconds of brightness, it disappeared.
NASA has issued an official statement regarding the object: It was a small meteorite, which astronomers had actually detected three hours before it entered the Earth’s atmosphere, igniting and breaking apart into numerous fragments.
According to NASA, most of the remaining debris likely landed in Lake Ontario at the U.S.-Canada border, although some pieces may have scattered along the southern shore of the lake.
The meteorite was specifically recorded in the meteor tracking database of the International Meteor Organization.
A witness named Dereck Bowen in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, was fortunate to use an automatically set GoPro camera to capture the night sky. A photo created from a series of images over 30 seconds showed the moment the green fireball soared across the sky, leaving a long trail of light from space straight down to the ground, illuminating the surrounding clouds.
NASA stated that this fireball belongs to a group of particularly bright meteorites, originating from asteroids or fragments of comets orbiting the Sun.
