Discover how NASA, radar systems, and physical evidence confirm the authentic Georgia meteor fireball that streaked across southeastern skies.

The American Meteor Society said it received more than 160 reports of a fireball sighting from observers in Georgia and South Carolina.

The Context The National Weather Service of Charleston, South Carolina, said on X that there are "many reports" of a fireball across the southeastern U.S. "It is not certain, but the satellite-based lightning detection shows a streak within cloud free sky,