Mysterious fireball lights up sky over California, videos show. ‘Did you see that?’

A mysterious fireball blazed across the night sky over Southern California and Nevada, videos show.

Forty-three people reported seeing the fireball at 10:44 p.m Saturday, Nov. 23, the American Meteor Society reported.

Sightings ranged from Santa Maria to San Diego in California and Sandy Valley in Nevada, near the California border, the society said.

Videos show a bright green fireball that appears to be heading down, followed by a flash of light.

“Did you see that?” a passenger asks the driver in a dash cam video.

“We saw it too ! It was crazy how big and green it was,” read a comment on the video.

“That is a bright one!” read a comment on another video.

The American Meteor Society did not offer a possible explanation for the fireball.

“Meteoroids are space rocks that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids,” NASA said. When the rocks hit the atmosphere of a planet, they become meteors and burn up.

They’re also known as shooting stars or fireballs, NASA said.

NASA reports about 48.5 tons of “meteoritic material’ falls on Earth every day . That’s roughly one-third the weight of the Statue of Liberty.

The Leonid meteor shower peaked over California on Nov. 17 and Nov. 18, McClatchy News reported.

This story was originally published November 24, 2024 at 10:25 AM with the headline "Mysterious fireball lights up sky over California, videos show. ‘Did you see that?’."