A fireball ripped through the night sky Monday, sparking excitement for witnesses along the East Coast.
Hundreds of reports flooded in after to the American Meteor Society claiming sightings from Maryland to Montreal. The meteor streaked across the sky around 6:35 p.m. and a New Jersey man caught the entire scene on his dashcam.
220+ reports about a Fireball over N/E USA on Dec 29th - http://t.co/nS19BxUiTI #ams #citizenscience pic.twitter.com/XD53tNctgH — AMSMETEORS (@amsmeteors) December 30, 2014
The video shows the large fireball fly like shooting star briefly, before fading back into the dark. The video has gained over 35,000 views since being published to YouTube Monday.
Pete Czech, tweeted out the video which he took off his navigation system and its since aided in the collection of many more reports on the unique sighting.
For anyone interested this was the precise capture point of the #meteor as per @garmin. pic.twitter.com/UhnYySIUVb — Pete Czech (@pjczech) December 30, 2014
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