There have been several reports, from Florida to Oklahoma, of people seeing a meteor streaking across the southern sky Tuesday night. The sighting took place around 9 p.m. It is being described as a fireball that resulted in a bright flash. In pictures it looks like a greenish-blue streak, almost like lighting. It only lasted a second. However, many pictures have also been identified as fakes so no one is 100 percent sure what the occurrence is. Read more
We contacted amateur astronomer Steven Meeks who writes an astronomy blog on todaysthv.com, he says it was likely a meteor and since some people saw it burn a bit greenish -- it probably contained copper. Read more
At roughly 8:50pm local time an apparent meteor was spotted by observers in Acadiana including KATC's Hoyt Harris. Hoyt and Acadiana were not alone in the observation with twitter reports (#flashoflight) from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida of a bright object in the sky at the same time. Read more