A bright fireball streaked across the skies in the Washington region late Tuesday night.
A man in the District reported “a huge bright Fireball with bright blue fire falling very close to Capitol Hill at around 11:30pm.”
In a message to a reporter, Kumar Shrestha said he was certain that a search of the area might find its remnants.
“It was very very close,” he said.
Huge #meteor visible from #DC at 10:57 pm. Retweet and/or DM me for more details. pic.twitter.com/2hTsJhVnj1
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A woman in the Arlington area exclaimed as follows in a tweet: “Guys!! That was a #FIREBALL that just came shooting through the sky- going due South along the #Potomac.”
An Alexandria resident said she saw a large fireball “fall from the” sky.
The American Meteor Society, a clearinghouse for fireball reports, listed a dozen from Maryland and Virginia. Reports were also received at about the same time from other parts of the country.
Estimates of sighting times ranged from about 10:45 p.m. to 11:30 p. m. Eastern time.
Several fireball photos were posted on Twitter feeds late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Some of the reports to the meteor society indicated that the fireball made a relatively small visual impact. The accounts classed the experience as only one on a scale of five.
However, a witness in Fairfax County rated it as a three.