Reports: Meteor Spotted Over DC, New York, New England

Twitter 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.

Twitter user Brenton Laverty described it as a huge, green meteor burning up over DC.

"At first I thought it was lightning," said reader Amy Petko-Trimble, who was driving near Quakertown, "Then I looked out my driver side window and I saw what I thought was a firework. It was a long, green streek in the sky that kind of fizzled out."

Terrence Martin, of Lafayette Hill, said on Facebook that it was "a flash moving west to east," and that it was "quite remarkable."

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? What did it look like? Let us know in the comments, and feel free to upload any images of the object you'd like to share.

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