Dash Cams Catch Fireball Streaking Across the Sky

If you weren’t up at just before 1 a.m. this morning and looking up at the heavens, you missed a pretty spectacular light show in the sky.

A fireball was seen falling from the sky at around 12:50 a.m. on May 17, 2016, streaking down, letting out a loud, sonic boom, and then fizzling out just before being lost across the horizon, according to witnesses this morning.

The American Meteor Society has logged more than 225 reports of the fireball across the Northeast. From its heat and estimated ground trajectory map, the AMS is presuming that the fireball landed somewhere in northern New Hampshire or northwest Maine. The fireball was seen as far away as Pennsylvania, according to reports online. The org is asking anyone who might have pictures or video to submit it online for its archives.

The Portland, ME, Police Department caught the fireball on want of its cruiser’s dash cams while a sergeant was watching for speeders, according to a post on the department’s Facebook.

“Let's hope the visitors are friendly,” the department remarked online. “They could just be some of Stephen King's friends on their way to visit him.”

Syd Thompson’s dash cam recorded the fireball while he was driving on the Everett Turnpike in New Hampshire this morning. He posted the recording on WMUR-TV’s ULocal site this morning.

During the last few years, Granite State residents have reported seeing a lot of odd, interesting, and compelling things – UFOs, objects, whatever you want to call them – in the sky, from triangle-shaped craft to pulsating orbs and lights.

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