A fireball captured on a dashcam in South Carolina
Kathryn Rose Farr through Fb
Sightings of a fireball streaking down from the sky had been reported by eyewitnesses in a number of south-eastern US states on the afternoon of 26 June.
The American Meteor Society’s web site has logged no less than 142 experiences in regards to the fireball occasion from observers in a number of states akin to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The Nationwide Climate Service workplace in Charleston, South Carolina, stated that “satellite-based lightning detection” confirmed a streak within the sky over the border between North Carolina and Virginia between 11.51 and 11.56am Jap Daylight Time.
A dashcam video from a driver in upstate South Carolina exhibits the fiery object plummeting from the sky earlier than disappearing behind a forested space adjoining to the freeway. One other automotive driving south-west of Columbia, South Carolina, additionally captured footage of the falling object.
VIDEO | This was simply despatched to me taken from a touch digicam on I-85 SB in Upstate South Carolina pic.twitter.com/49PvNsorAK
— Cody Alcorn (@CodyAlcorn) June 26, 2025
This will have been what’s often known as a bolide fireball occasion, the place a brilliant meteor explodes and breaks aside because it falls by way of Earth’s environment, stated Mike Hankey on the American Meteor Society in an interview with WXIA-TV in Georgia.
Meteorologist Chris Jackson posted on social media that native hearth departments had been responding to experiences of “fireballs falling out of the sky” however added that the emergency responders had not discovered something on the bottom as of early afternoon.
There are presently no main meteor showers energetic and visual from Earth. The subsequent main meteor bathe occasion includes the Southern delta Aquariids beginning subsequent month.
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