Fireball seen across western states

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Posted at 9:12 PM, Oct 18, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-18 22:15:05-04

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (KGTV) — A fireball lawsuit seen implicit Arizona, Nevada, Utah and California caught galore by surprise, according to the American Meteor Society (AMS).

The AMS said the fireball lawsuit was seen conscionable aft 8:45 p.m. Saturday.

View a representation of the Fireball's way here.

NASA was capable to found that the fireball lawsuit was archetypal sighted astatine an altitude of 51 miles supra the Mojave Trails National Monument with the assistance of 3 publically accessible cameras, according to the AMS.

The meteor moved northwest astatine 47,000 miles per hr and disintegrated supra Yermo, Calif., eastbound of Barstow. It took astir 3.8 seconds to pain up.

This communicative was primitively reported by Claudia Amezcua connected 10news.com.