Huge fireball hovering over North Carolina at 32,000 mph captured on video

A great video of a fireball crossing the sky over North Carolina last week has been released. The American Meteor Society shared a video taken on Friday from the front porch of a house in Rowland Pond, North Carolina, showing a huge fireball falling from the sky.

According to NASA, the fireball fell on the North Carolina coast around 7:40 p.m. and was one of at least five fireballs seen over the United States on the same night.

Fireballs are bright meteors classified as brighter than the planet Venus, according to the company, a nonprofit that monitors meteors.

The organization received 148 reports of fireballs from Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia on Friday. The fireball in North Carolina had the largest cluster of eyewitness accounts, with more than 80 people reporting it.

NASA says an analysis of these accounts shows the meteor was visible 48 miles above the ocean off Camp Lejeune and climbed northeast at about 32,000 miles per hour. It traveled 26 miles through Earth’s upper atmosphere, then disintegrated 28 miles above Morehead City on the coast.

According to the company, meteorites typically enter Earth’s atmosphere between 25,000 and 160,000 mph, but decelerate rapidly as they pass through the atmosphere.

The fireball has been captured in at least two different videos. The one obtained by AMS went viral, with almost 95,000 views.

Due to the phases of the moon last week, with a full moon on September 20, there was a limited opportunity to see meteors between moonset and dawn, according to AMS. Yet dozens of stargazers have been able to spot meteors.