East Coast Meteor Spotted In Anne Arundel

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

Facebook reports began coming in saying the meteor was seen over the skies of Anne Arundel County by residents in Pasadena, Glen Burnie and Odenton.

Facebook user Joanna White Kille described it as, "a big green fireball going from left to right just above us and then burning out as it headed towards land," near Waugh Chapel.

A man identifying himself as "Greg C." said he was driving east on Route 32 near Fort Meade when he saw the meteor. He described it as "intense blue/white and the tail was orange and red," and he originally mistook it for fireworks. 

Several readers told NBC4 that they spotted the meteor just before 8 p.m. Friday.

Twitter user Brenton Laverty characterized it as a huge, green meteor burning up over DC.

Another user from Montgomery County, PA—E. Steven Collins—described the object as "Bright. Orange. Blue. White. Silver. Totally streaking by the sky light! Wow!"

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."

Patch will have more information on Friday's sighting as it becomes available.

Did you spot the bright object in the sky Friday night? What did it look like? Let us know in the comments, and feel free to upload any images of the object to Patch.

Broadneck Patch editor D. Frank Smith contributed to this article.