The fireball was seen across nine U.S. states.
Some reports also stated the fireball created sonic booms that were loud enough to rattle buildings and wake observers. In the footage above, the fireball was captured streaking across the sky by Bill Stewart in West Virginia and by David Tiller in Tennessee. Astronomer Bill Stewart watches a fireball streak through the sky below the full moon on Aug. 2, 2023.
"I've never seen anything like it. The initial flash was brilliant and brighter than the street light in the yard I was standing in," an observer named Dustin L."Light brilliance was enough to overpower current full moon in east [sic],"Perseid meteor shower or one of two other currently active showers. However, its path did not line up with the radiant of any of those showers, or the point in the sky from which a meteor shower originates.
As it turns out, the fireball was likely a comet fragment, according to meteor expert Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. Cooke that the fireball was caused by a comet fragment around 1 foot in diameter with a weight close to 75 pounds .
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