Fireball lights up skies over US capital
Witnesses in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia say they saw a fireball streaking across the sky on Saturday evening.
6:16 PM on 1/30/2016
Washington
Witnesses聽say聽a聽possible聽fireball聽has been聽seen聽in the sky聽above聽Maryland,聽Virginia聽and the聽District聽of聽Columbia.
Video captured by Alexander Salvador on a dashcam at 6:17 p.m. Saturday shows a streak streaming through the聽sky聽above聽Falls Church,聽Virginia. Observers described it as "huge" and "very bright" but then noted it fizzled, disintegrating into fragments.
According to NASA, a聽fireball聽is an unusually bright meteor that reaches a specific brightness.
There were hundreds of聽fireball聽sightings reported to the American Meteor Society, which tracks聽fireballs, across the northeast. The organization encourages eyewitnesses to log a report with a description on its website.
So far, there have been no reports of any fragments hitting the ground and no official word on what the object was.
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