A fireball captured on a dashcam in South Carolina
Kathryn Rose Farr by way of Fb
Sightings of a fireball streaking down from the sky have 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 studies in regards to the fireball occasion from observers in a number of states equivalent to Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The Nationwide Climate Service workplace in Charleston, South Carolina, mentioned 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 reveals the fiery object plummeting from the sky earlier than disappearing behind a forested space adjoining to the freeway. One other automobile driving south-west of Columbia, South Carolina, additionally captured footage of the falling object.
VIDEO | This was simply despatched to me taken from a splash digicam on I-85 SB in Upstate South Carolina pic.twitter.com/49PvNsorAK
— Cody Alcorn (@CodyAlcorn) June 26, 2025
This may occasionally have been what’s often known as a bolide fireball occasion, the place a vibrant meteor explodes and breaks aside because it falls by way of Earth’s ambiance, mentioned 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 have been responding to studies 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 at present 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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