Meteor Buzzed New England Skies: Reports

A meteor streaked across New England skies Tuesday night, according to multiple reports. The first sightings happened in New Hampshire and Massachusetts around 11 p.m. The object streaked south along the East Coast and burned up over the Atlantic Ocean in Delaware. Anything that was left would have hit the water, an expert said.

There were more than 300 sightings of the object, according to the American Meteor Society.

"We received reports from Washington DC, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, Vermont and West Virginia," the society's Vincent Perlerin wrote. "The preliminary 3D trajectory computed ... shows that the fireball was traveling from North to South and ended its flight in the Atlantic Ocean in front of Bethany Beach, (Delaware). It means that if anything survived, it’s in the water."

The meteor may have been part of the Lyrid meteor shower, which started Tuesday. The Lyrid shower will peak the night of April 22. The April 16-25 Lyrid meteor shower typically produces around 20 shooting stars an hour. The full "pink moon" — so named for the pink ground phlox that blooms this month — on April 19 will still be bright and could be problematic.

Beth Dalbey, Patch National Staff, contributed to this report