A giant fireball explodes on top of Texas
A flaming meteor lit up the Texas sky last weekend, startling the residents
The event was documented by the American Meteor Society (AMS) after it received hundreds of reports of the meteor on Sunday evening through eyewitnesses.
The object was called a 'ball of fire', an astronomical term for an unusually bright meteor which can be seen over a wide area.
As of Thursday, AMS stated it had logged a complete of 588 reports from the night, with the fireball estimated to have exceeded overhead at roughly 11:30 p.m. ET.
"It used to be simply a very vibrant inexperienced flash," one eyewitness in Yoakum recalled in their report. "Like anybody with a inexperienced digicam flash was once taking a photo in the front of me however bigger."
Another eyewitness based totally in Austin wrote: "Lots of fragments like an entry breakup, then a vivid white flash that lasted a 1/3 of a 2d and used to be a uniformly round shiny white explosion."
Some human beings pronounced listening to numerous booming sounds related with the fireball, both at some stage in the sighting or barely afterwards.
One character in Bastrop stated they heard "several booms like bombs." Another eyewitness described listening to a "loud low pitch echoing growth from the path it used to be heading, about 4 minutes after sighting."
Some eyewitnesses also submitted video pictures of the tournament from protection cameras at their property. In one clip captured by means of a doorbell digital camera at a property in College Station, the fireball all of sudden seems in the sky, shining brightly for a few seconds earlier than flashing and disappearing from sight at the back of some houses.
Others uploaded clips to Twitter, along with one sighting from the dashcam of a car.