Fireball seen shooting across the sky in Southeastern U.S. was from meteor

A fireball was spotted by pulling in the sky in the south-east of the United States while a meteor shower was reported in the region on Thursday afternoon, officials announced.

The meteor shower, which the National Weather Service confirmed, remained visible for hours after the first observations, said a spokesperson for the Forsth County Management Management Agency in Georgia.

No impact or injury has been reported, said the spokesperson, adding that the shower is monitored.

Charleston’s National Weather Service Office said earlier There were “many fireball reports” in the region just before noon.

“It is not certain, but the satellite-based lightning detection shows a sequence in the free clouds of clouds above the NC / VA border, on Gasbury, VA”, between 11:51 am and 11:56 am, said meteorological service at the time.

Videos shared on social networks have shown that the fireball descends into a wooded area in South Carolina.

Kathryn Farr shared the video of the dashcam of her car as she led south to the interstate 85 to Anderson, in South Carolina, around 12:25 p.m.

“Not something you see every day,” she wrote on Facebook.

Another view of Andrew Corley Road in Lexington, South Carolina, showed the suspected meteorite burning a shiny white with an orange flame tail before entering a wooded area.

The Newton County Sheriff’s Bureau in Georgia said it was informed by the meteorological service that the fireball was probably a meteor, “and they believe that more could be on the way.”

“Currently, we have no information on where the meteor landed,” said the sheriff’s office, noting that the fireball was reported by residents in Covington and the surrounding area.