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A rare daytime fireball that streaked across the skies over parts of northeastern America Tuesday afternoon was a meteor, NASA said. More than 200 eyewitness reports were submitted to the American Meteor Society from across Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and Connecticut, helping officials piece together its path.
A meteor spotted across multiple states Tuesday afternoon traveled more than 100 miles before disintegrating, NASA said.
What NASA officials described as a “daytime fireball” was visible to people in the northeastern United States.
A meteor was seen streaking across the sky in the New York tri-state area in broad daylight Tuesday afternoon, amid what NASA calls peak fireball season.
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