Fireballs In The Sky

On Friday, October 20, 2017, people in Maryland to New Hampshire to New York reported seeing lots of fireballs shooting in the sky.  The American Meteor Society reported that there were several streaks of fireball that lit up the sky and some reported it as being “brighter in the sky than Venus.”  So, what were these fireballs?  Well, they were actually a group of meteors that passed in the sky.  When there’s a group of meteors that pass by really close to earth, they create “fireballs” because they look like flames of fire being thrown across the sky.  The American Meteor Society says that there are usually thousands of meteors that pass into the Earth’s atmosphere everyday, but are not seen because it’s usually in the daytime or it passes over a region where nobody lives in.