Meteor Blazes Through NYC Skies

NEW YORK — Several New Yorkers caught a glimpse of a flaming meteor that sailed over the Northeast Wednesday night. The American Meteor Society said 361 people had reported seeing the fireball as of Thursday afternoon, including 13 in New York City.

Sightings in the city lasted no longer than about 3.5 seconds, but sky-watchers were wowed by the meteor's kaleidoscope of colors such as green, red and blue, according to reports submitted to the society.

"I was looking out my apartment window towards the Hudson River and saw a green fireball fairly low in the sky," wrote Irene W., who saw the object on the Upper East Side around 11 p.m. Wednesday. "It was like a big green flare heading in a downward direction."

"It was humongous, beautiful, and wild," Clinton Hill spotter Ilya K. wrote.

The American Meteor Society logged sightings in every borough but The Bronx. Several were also reported on Long Island.

"The front cloud of it was a deep bright cerulean, the coma was orange, middle [nucleus?] was white and the tail was yellow," gxiana bianca, who saw the meteor from Queens, said on Twitter.

The meteor was reportedly seen as far south as North Carolina and as far north as Maine. Most sightings were reported in New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island.

Patch editor Rich Scinto contributed to this report.