The American Meteor Society received numerous fireball reports in the American South-East Thursday afternoon-reports that are Connected to its website.
“It seems that it was a” daytime ball “that caused a sound boom.
The Federal Aviation Administration told CNN that there was no unusual aircraft activity in the region.
“Satellite lighting detection shows a sequence in the free sky on the NC / VA border,” said the National Weather Service in Charleston on X.
“This sequence was detected between 12:51 and 12:56,” added NWS.
Analysis of satellite lightning detection by CNN shows additional signatures in the Atlanta region.
The video of Dashcam taken around 12:30 p.m. in Forsyth, in Georgia, shows a ball of fire descending to the ground.
In the County of Lexington, in South Carolina, Dashcam’s video shows a big flash of light falling Thursday in the sky. The South Carolina emergency management division told CNN that it was monitoring the situation.
Brenda Eckard, 64, of Gilbert, in South Carolina, said that she was going home when she saw a “big lightning in the sky go down and disappear”.
She first thought that it was a meteor that “almost looked like fireworks,” Eckard told CNN on Thursday. Eckard then called her husband to check if their house was still standing.
The Bootids Meteor shower, a lower level meteor shower, is in progress this week, according to A list of the American meteor company.
Fire balls are easier to see at night, but must be much brighter to be visible during the day, say meteorologists.
CNN contacted managers of emergency management in North Carolina and Tennessee.
North American Aerospace Defense Command brought questions to NASA. CNN contacted NASA.