Charlotte Observer
About 8 p.m. Wednesday, something peculiar flashed in the sky — something twinkly, something colorful, something eye-catching. “A fireball,” says Daniel Caton, observatory director and astronomy professor at Appalachian State University in Boone. Based on the reports, Caton believes it was an unusually bright meteor that burned up about 30 miles high in the atmosphere somewhere above Charlotte. Sightings came from more than 100 miles away.

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