A SPOOKY green fireball was spotted in the sky just hours before it appeared to smash into an American lake.
While these are normally harmless, they can pose a deadly threat to Earthlings.
During the witching hour on November 19, 2022, a bright green fireball appeared to streak through the sky over the northeastern area of the U.S. and the southeastern region of Canada.
Witnesses allegedly saw a “helicopter-like” entity flying soundlessly through the sky, then lighting up the sky in a huge flash, Live Science wrote.
Just 10 seconds passed before the object was gone without a trace.
Astronomers believe this fireball was a tiny meteor, detected some three hours before it fell through Earth’s atmosphere and sparked into a fire, breaking it up into hundreds of even smaller segments.
It is estimated that most of the pieces crashed into Lake Ontario.
Other pieces are likely to have made impacts on land near the lake’s shore, Nasa stated.
Seven global observatories saw the meteor’s dive, and 59 people across New York, Maryland, and Pennsylvania bore witness to the event and testified their sighting on the International Meteor Organization database.
Canadian witness Dereck Bowen of Brantford, Ontario, locate 60 miles west of the New York State border, filmed the meteor’s dive on a GoPro
The video lasts about 30 seconds and shows the descent of the meteor, as well as the object, lighting up the sky around it.
A Toronto, Canada tower also caught the celestial happening on video.
Nasa categorizes fireballs as particularly bright meteors that start as asteroids or comet scraps that orbit the Sun.
This fireball, named 2022 WJ1, was possibly no more than 3.2 feet across and came from an asteroid.
Upon entrance into Earth’s atmosphere, these space objects slow down and cool off.
This causes their fiery trail.
The coloring, sometimes green, depends on the chemical composition of the fireball.
Normally, they are considered harmless, as the environment causes them to burn up before they reach the surface most of the time.
Sometimes, though, fireballs provide a deadly threat to civilians.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection remains investigating a November 5, 2022 claim from a man who says a fireball caused his house fire, Live Science said.