Report: Meteor Spotted Over Boston, New York and DC

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.

On Twitter, Adam Gaffin of Universal Hub retweeted several Boston area tweets from people saying they saw the flash across the sky.

Hundreds of miles south of Boston, E. Steven Collins of Montgomery County, PA 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.