A bright fireball was spotted in the sky Tuesday afternoon over parts of New Jersey and several other eastern states, including New York and Pennsylvania, according to social media posts and eyewitness reports submitted to the American Meteor Society.
The AMS, which tracks meteors across the globe, received 99 reports of Tuesday’s fireball as of 3 p.m., including 28 from New Jersey. By 4 p.m., the total number of reports rose to 186.
Most of the witnesses reported seeing a bright flash in the sky between 2:35 p.m. and 2:40 p.m., and some reported seeing several green-colored fragments streaking across the sky for several seconds…