A fireball was spotted shooting through the sky in the Southeastern U.S. as a meteor shower was reported in the area Thursday afternoon, officials said.
The meteor shower, which the National Weather Service confirmed, remained visible hours after the initial sightings, a spokesperson for Forsyth County Emergency Management Agency in Georgia said.
No impacts or injuries have been reported, the spokesperson said, adding that the shower is being monitored.
Henry County Emergency Management said occupants of a house there reported that a "rock" fell through their ceiling, shortly after the time of the reported meteor shower, just before 12:30 p.m., the National Weather Service office in Peachtree City, Georgia, said on Facebook.
The NWS said it was likely that a piece of the object — what it called a meteor or "space junk" — fell and, EMA said, pierced the home's roof, then the ceiling, before cracking the laminate floor and coming to a stop.
The National Weather Service office in Charleston said earlier that there were "many reports of a fireball" across the region just before noon.
“It is not certain, but the satellite-based lightning detection shows a streak within cloud free sky over the NC/VA border, over Gasbury, VA,” between 11:51 to 11:56 a.m., the weather service said at the time.
Videos shared on social media showed the fireball shoot down into a wooded area in South Carolina.
Kathryn Farr shared video of her car’s dashcam as she was driving south on Interstate 85 toward Anderson, South Carolina, around 12:25 p.m.
“Not something you see everyday,” she wrote on Facebook.
Another view from Andrew Corley Road in Lexington, South Carolina, showed the suspected meteorite burning bright white with an orange flame tail before fizzling into a wooded area.
The Newton County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia said it was notified by the weather service that the fireball was most likely a meteor, “and they believe more could possibly be on the way.”
“At this time, we do not have any information on where the meteor may have landed,” the sheriff’s office said, noting the fireball was reported by residents in and around Covington.
