Mystery fireball spotted plummeting to Earth over the US

Observations of a fireball that were destroyed from the sky were reported by eyewitnesses in several states in the southeast of the United States in the afternoon of June 26.

The American Meteor Society website has recorded at least 142 reports on the Fireball Observer event in several states such as Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The National Bureau of Meteorological Services of Charleston, in South Carolina, said that “satellite lightning detection” showed a sequence in the sky above the border between North Carolina and Virginia between 11.51 and 116

A video of Dashcam of a driver in the state of the South Carolina shows the ardent object that falls from the sky before disappearing behind a wooded area adjacent to the highway. Another car leading to the southwest of Columbia, in South Carolina, also captured images of the falling object.

Video | It was sent to me from a dashboard camera on the i-85 SB in the state of the South Carolina pic.twitter.com/49pvnsorak

– Cody Alcorn (@Codyalcorn) June 26, 2025

This is perhaps what is called a racing Fireball event, where a brilliant meteor explodes and separates as it falls into the atmosphere of the earth, Mike Hankey told American Meteor Society in an interview with Wxia-TV in Georgia.

Meteorologist Chris Jackson posted on social networks that local fire services responded to “fire balls that fell from the sky”, but added that the emergency speakers had found nothing on the field in the early afternoon.

There are currently no active and visible major meteor showers. The next major meteor shower event involves aquariids from the southern Delta from next month.