Twitter was abuzz Friday night with reports of a large, bright meteor streaking across the night sky over the East Coast.
Several readers told NBC4 that they spotted the meteor just before 8 p.m. Friday.
According to the American Meteor Society, one person from Galloway reported seeing the meteor at 7:45 p.m., stating they were standing "on a baseball field when the sky was lit by the meteor." There was no delayed or concurring sound reported.
Twitter user Brenton Laverty characterized it as a huge, green meteor burning up over DC.
Another user from Montgomery County, PA — E. Steven Collins — described the object as "Bright. Orange. Blue. White. Silver. Totally streaking by the sky light! Wow!"
According to several outlets, the object may have qualified as a fireball, defined by the American Meteor Society as a "very bright meteor, generally brighter than magnitude -4, which is about the same magnitude of the planet Venus in the morning or evening sky."
Patch will have more information on Friday's sighting as it becomes available.
Did you spot the bright object in the sky Friday night? What did it look like? Let us know in the comments, and feel free to upload any images of the object to Patch.
