This is the terrifying moment a massive fireball lit up the sky over the South as a meteor shower had some fearing of ‘Armageddon’. Reports of more than 50 sightings across Texas, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida of a massive fireball flying through the sky were recorded by the American Meteor Society.
Witnesses said they saw a bright falling object light up the sky ‘like fireworks’ last Friday morning at around 4.30 am. Multiple recordings of the bright burst of falling light show flashed of green, blue, orange and yellow light.
One witness from Gulfport, Mississippi said ‘it was incredible’ and ‘very large.’ ‘It was still the size of a car when it went behind the trees,’ they added.
Dash and ring cameras across the south picked up the other-worldly sighting and have subsequently circulated online. Several additional witnesses said it was by far the largest and brightest falling object they’d ever seen.
One from Frankston, Texas said they’d ‘seen falling stars but nothing like this.’ ‘It was very clear and very vivid. I could see the heat coming off front circling around in a flame and trailing a trail of fire behind its path.’
Another witness from New Orleans said they were alarmed by the event, and thought it perhaps was the end. ‘The magnitude of what I saw had me bracing for a catastrophic event. I was driving on a freeway when it happened and found myself looking for a mushroom cloud or Armageddon,’ they said.
One person in Cheneyville, Louisiana said the comet looked like it landed in some nearly fields, though it is still not clear exactly where it did land. While the witness did not feel an explosion or any other sort of tremor, they emphasized the visuals of the experience from earlier this month.
‘There wasn’t an explosion that I am aware of but there was a flash, a flash that is a lot like fireworks going off that lights up everything for a brief moment,’ they said.
