(WWJ) -- A fireball lit up the sky in the early hours of Wednesday over southeast Michigan.
The American Meteor Society has reported sightings of last night’s burst of light from all around the state, with some sightings as far away as Indiana.
Spotted around 12:45 a.m., metro Detroiters in Belleville, Clinton Township, Fraser, Freeland, Holly, Howell, Pontiac, Romulus, Warren and other areas all reported witnessing the fireball.
The American Meteor Society describes the fireballs as meteors brighter than Venus that can appear like a plane on fire.
According to Mike Murray, Astronomer and Planetary Manager at Delta College, the earth is currently traveling through debris from Halley’s comet in an event called the Orionid meteor shower.
“In many times, when these larger meteors enter the atmosphere, they will break off into pieces,” Murray said. “If you do see it breaking up or even explode, that’s an even more rare kind of meteor called a bolide, so that’s what it sounds like this was.”
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