The meteor was what NASA calls an “Earth grazer,” and it was not common.
Early Thursday morning, while people were getting ready to head to school and work, an impressive sight streaked across the sky above the southeastern part of the United States. People in the Carolinas, as well as those in Georgia, reported seeing a bright green fireball as it tracked across the dusky morning sky.
The American Meteor Society posted videos that were submitted to its website by viewers online for others to see as well. People in the videos can be heard calling it a UFO or a shooting star. But NASA says it was a meteor. “They kind of skim along the top of the atmosphere. Some hit at such a shallow angle they literally bounce off the atmosphere,” Cooke said. The one that occurred Thursday morning, at about 6:52 a.m. EDT, didn’t bounce off though, and because it was traveling at such a shallow angle it stayed in the sky bright and slow for long enough for people to capture it on video and get a good look at it.
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