A fireball was spotted by pulling in the sky in the south-east of the United States while a meteor shower was reported in the region on Thursday afternoon, officials announced.
The meteor shower, which the National Weather Service confirmed, remained visible for hours after the first observations, said a spokesperson for the Forsth County Management Management Agency in Georgia.
No impact or injury has been reported, said the spokesperson, adding that the shower is monitored.
The Henry County Emergency Directorate said that the occupants of a house said that a “rock” had fallen into their ceiling, shortly after the time of the meteor shower reported, just before 12:30 p.m., the National Meeting Bureau of Peachtree City, Georgia, said on Facebook.
The NWS said it was likely that a piece of the object – what it called a meteor or “space waste” – fell and said EMA, pierced the roof of the house, then the ceiling, before cracking the laminate floor and stopping.
Charleston’s National Weather Service Office said earlier That there were “many fireball reports” in the region just before noon.
“It is not certain, but the satellite-based lightning detection shows a sequence in the free clouds of clouds above the NC / VA border, on Gasbury, VA”, between 11:51 am and 11:56 am, said meteorological service at the time.
Videos shared on social networks have shown that the fireball descends into a wooded area in South Carolina.
Kathryn Farr shared the video of the dashcam of her car as she led south to the interstate 85 to Anderson, in South Carolina, around 12:25 p.m.
“Not something you see every day,” she wrote on Facebook.
Another view of Andrew Corley Road in Lexington, South Carolina, showed the suspected meteorite burning a shiny white with an orange flame tail before entering a wooded area.
The Newton County Sheriff’s Bureau in Georgia said it was informed by the meteorological service that the fireball was most likely a meteor, “and they believe that more could be on the way.”
“Currently, we have no information on where the meteor landed,” said the sheriff’s office, noting that the fireball was reported by residents in Covington and the surrounding area.
