UNDATED (WKZO AM/FM) – The National Weather Service says the bright light streaking across the sky just after 8:00 p.m. Tuesday night appears to have been a meteor.
That has now been confirmed by Homeland Security. It came flying across the upper Midwest, leaving Detroit shaking from the sound of a sonic boom.
Richard Bell at the Kalamazoo Astronomical Society said his members who saw it could tell right away that it was a meteor, a piece of space rock that wandered into the atmosphere, and not space debris, which makes a different appearence when it enters the atmosphere apparently. .
He says they are relatively common occurrences. What made this one different was its timing, appearing at night over several Great Lakes States.
He says his guess is that despite the amount of energy it generated, it was only about the size of a softball.
911 centers lit up, social media went berzerk, and the server at the American Meterological Society crashed. Some heard what was apparently a sonic boom created by the fast moving object.
