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Bright fireball dazzles hundreds across the mid-Atlantic: watch now

Bright fireball dazzles hundreds across the mid-Atlantic: watch now

A blazing fireball flew Sunday night across the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, startling hundreds of eyewitnesses who reported sightings to the American Meteor Society.

The meteor likely first became visible around 9:20 p.m. local time 47 miles above Forest Hill, Maryland, as it headed northwest across the sky at 36,000 miles per hour. according to NASA Meteor Facebook page. The meteor, which was bright enough for NASA to refer to as a fireball, eventually disintegrated 22 miles above Pennsylvania in Gnatstown, a town south of Harrisburg.

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