Meteor Lights Up East Coast Sky

Twitter was abuzz last night with reports of a large, bright meteor streaking across the night sky over the Eastern Seaboard.

Twitter user Brenton Laverty characterized it as a huge, green meteor burning up over DC just before 8 p.m.

We've had similar accounts in Connecticut, from Lyme to Greenwich and Orange to Bethel and everywhere in between — and beyond.

"We saw two flashes in Lyme ... looked like big shooting stars ... pretty cool," Cindy Thomas wrote on The Lymes Facebook page. 

"my grand daughter saw it on route 8 at 8 pm and said it was amazing," Roberta Poynton wrote on the Naugatuck Patch Facebook page.

On the Orange Patch Facebook page, Michele Prezioso Mehan wrote, "Scout Troop camping in Greenwich spotted it at 755pm. It was visible for about 20 seconds. Approached West to South."

"Saw it while I was driving down Greenwood Avenue at around 7:55. It looked like it was right over Caraluzzi's!" Jeannine Fagan wrote on Bethel Patch's Facebook page.

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."

Did you spot the bright object in the sky Friday night? What did it look like? Let us know in the comments.