A meteor streaked across the sky over metro Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, creating a spectacular fireball and a loud boom that startled thousands of people.
NASA confirmed that the meteor was first observed 48 miles above Oxford, Georgia, traveling at a speed of 30,000 miles per hour. The meteor, an asteroidal fragment with a diameter of three feet and weighing over a ton, disintegrated 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, releasing energy equivalent to 20 tons of TNT, NASA said.
Henry County Sheriff Reginald Scandrett told Action News Jax’s Atlanta station WSB-TV that he and his team felt the impact, which stopped them in their tracks…