A brilliant fireball lit up the night sky over southern Michigan Tuesday (Jan. 16), dazzling skywatchers lucky enough to see it. Many more felt the earth shake from the meteor's sonic boom, according to media reports. The meteor occurred at 8:10 p.m. CST and caused a 2.0 magnitude earthquake, officials with the National Weather Service wrote in an alert.
The American Meteor Society has received 399 sightings of the brilliant fireball, which lit up social media.Take a look at some of those sightings:
Did you see it? Dash cam by @z_lawler captures fireball meteor light up Michigan sky. pic.twitter.com/JvNXSQFtw1— Kate Tillotson (@KateWWMT) January 17, 2018
— #CreativeMich (@CreativeMich) January 17, 2018
Dashcam footage of the Michigan meteor that happened tonight: pic.twitter.com/R7QI7kHOtc— Michigan Bests (@MichiganBests) January 17, 2018
People are telling me they heard a loud bang all across Southeast MI. Was it a #Meteor? Here’s another video: pic.twitter.com/mtxOWvJZfx— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 17, 2018