Giant Fireball: What the (HECK) Was That?

By Todd Richissin

If you were outside last night at about 8:30 or so, maybe you saw it: A giant fireball hurtling across the region.

The American Meteor Society has received more than 60 reports of the fireball, which appears to have been over Lancaster County in Maryland, but plenty visible from Virginia and Washington, DC. 

• Video of fireball over Ohio on Sept. 27.

WTOP reported that multiplereports of a giant fireball came in to its newsroom, including from one listener traveling eastbound on Interstate 66 toward the Route 7 exit.

Greg Redfern, WTOP's space expert, said he and another person saw the fireball about 8:25 p.m.

Reports of sightings also came from New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.