NASA Confirms: CT, 9 More States, Witness Spectacular Meteor Sighting

CONNECTICUT — More than a hundred eyewitnesses across Connecticut and neighboring states reported seeing a fireball streak overhead Saturday night.

The meteor was reported at 9:08 p.m. by skywatchers in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New Hampshire, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia filing reports with the American Meteor Society

NASA confirmed the sightings.

"An analysis of these reports indicates that the fireball first became visible 50 miles above the New York City suburb of Mamaroneck, moving at bit east of north at 38,000 miles per hour," the agency reported on social media. The space rock disintegrated around 30 miles above Norven Green State Forest, after travelling some 37 miles through the upper atmosphere. The meteor was not associated with any currently active meteor shower, according to the scientists.

A video submitted to AMS shows the traveler taking its impressive, albeit just three-second-long, final burn, backdropped by billows of gray clouds over New Jersey.