Credit: Tom Sofield/LevittownNow.com
Just around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, an orange and green-tinted fireball shot over the sky in Lower Bucks County.
Several LevittownNow.com readers and a reporter for this news organization spotted the fireball heading from north to south.
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The American Meteor Society said they received more than 170 reports, including from Langhorne and Bristol Township, of the fireball shooting above the area. They also received reports from Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York.
“It was really cool, I wish I had time to get out my phone camera!” wrote Daniel P, who observed the fireball from Langhorne.
“A NASA analysis of the sightings shows that the meteor’s direction of motion is consistent with it being a member of the currently active north Taurid meteor shower. At the time of first appearance, the fireball was out in the Atlantic roughly 50 miles (80 km) from Stafford Township at an altitude of 60 miles (96 km). The possible fragment of Comet Encke moved to the southwest at 65,000 miles per hour (100,000 km/h), traveling 90 miles (145 km) before disintegrating 42 miles (65 km) above the ocean, just off Sea Isle City Beach,” the American Meteor Society said.
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A video of the fireball from East Brunswick, New Jersey:
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