WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The American Meteor Society confirms four separate fireball events, all within 90 minutes, were witnessed in the Midwest, Southeast, and along the Eastern Seaboard.
A fireball is very bright meteor -- brighter than the planet Venus, as Mike Hankey, AMS operations manager, recently explained to Newsweek. As Hankey put it, sky-gazers would see "a really bright light in the sky that starts kind of small [and] moves slowly and gets progressively brighter and brighter."