Reports: Meteor Spotted Over East Coast

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

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

Eugene D'Alessandro of Lanoka Harbor said he saw something similar to a shooting star "falling straight down." It appeared to be south of Western Boulevard.

"Strangest shooting star I've seen," he said on Lacey Patch's Facebook page.

Justine Rodriguez of Mystic Island said she saw a "bright flash of light," followed by what appeared to be a comet heading towards south Jersey.

"It was bright with a tail of orange, red, blueish and even green in it. Kinda looked like fire shooting across the sky. It was amazing," she said on Facebook.

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."

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.