Reports: Meteor Spotted Over New England

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

The Clay Center Observatory told WBZ-TV that the bright light in the night sky just before 8 p.m. Friday was indeed a meteor.

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."

The American Meteor Society also provided this map of reported sightings of the fireball.

So far, there are no confirmed photos of the event. Several photos have circulated Twitter and Facebook, purporting to depict tonight's event, but at least two of the most widely shared of these depict earlier events (see here and here).

Did you spot the bright object in the Newton sky Friday night? What did it look like? Let us know in the comments, and feel free to upload any images of the supposed meteor by clicking "upload photos and video" above.