A rare fireball bright enough to be seen during broad daylight dazzled skies and triggered a sonic boom in parts of the eastern United States on Tuesday morning.
The fireball was likely an unusually bright meteor, a piece of space rock burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. Fireballs burn as bright or brighter than Venus, the third brightest object in the sky, according to NASA.
This fireball was reported by skywatchers in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Ohio near 9 a.m. ET, according to the American Meteor Society.
A loud boom was heard in the Cleveland area when the fast-moving meteor broke through the sound barrier, according to the National Weather Service.
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