Confirmed: Meteor spotted in northeast Indiana
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A meteor was spotted from northeast Indiana Tuesday night. Bill Cooke with NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office told The Detroit News Wednesday morning it was “definitely a meteoroid” and a rare sight for Michigan.
Other states where people reported seeing a fireball included Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri.
Multiple media outlets reported sightings in southeast Michigan near Detroit on Wednesday evening. Viewers to local television stations reported seeing a bright light and loud bloom. There have also been reports of sightings in northwest Pittsburgh.
Several people in northeast Indiana reported seeing the bright light in the sky. Eric, a viewer of WISH-TV’s sister station WANE, submitted video from a camera in Woodburn of a giant streak of light in the eastern sky.
A NASA account tweeted data from the GOES16 satellite that may have also caught the meteor entering earth’s atmosphere.
Accounts of the possible meteor started around 8:30 p.m.
The National Weather Service in Detroit confirmed the streak of light was not lightning and the boom was not thunder.