Massive fireball seen flying across sky at over 30,000 mph in Tennessee and North Carolina

Residents in the South may have seen or heard a massive fireball streak across the sky this weekend .

A “very bright fireball” was seen flying across the sky over several southern states on Aug. 30, NASA wrote in a Facebook post. There were over 100 eyewitness reports of the celestial event.

The fireball was detected on several cameras in the region, as well as the Geostationary Lightning Mapper that’s on the GOES-6 spacecraft . It was moving at about 31,300 miles per hour.

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The object was an “asteroidal fragment weighing nearly 1000 pounds and just over 2 feet in diameter,” NASA wrote. It was recorded to be about 45 miles above Piney Flats, Tennessee, and 20 miles above Altapass, North Carolina.

It disintegrated as it passed over Altapass, and the break up produced as much energy as 10 tons of TNT. The boom was heard by many witnesses.

NASA said there are likely pieces of meteorites on the ground in the Altapass area, as well as Spruce Pine and Ingalls in North Carolina.

In the Facebook comments, some witnesses revealed what it was like to see the phenomenon.

One person wrote: “I saw this on my way home from work last night around Fairview Alabama and had no clue what it was!

“When I first noticed it moving across the sky I thought it was a plane about to crash because of how fast it was moving and the reddish color. It kinda arced downward then went real bright then back to darkness. “