The fireball is presumed to be from a meteor fragmenting in the sky, according to meteorologists and other experts.

A rarely seen daytime fireball that may have been dropped by a meteor was spotted across the Southeast on Thursday — creating a sonic boom that blared through the region.

A fireball, or an exceptionally bright meteor, appears to have exploded in the skies over the southeastern U.S. on Thursday.

The object, identified as a fireball, "exploded 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, unleashing an energy of about 20 tons of TNT," per CBS News.

Fireball wows observers in the South, including in North Carolina A fireball was seen shortly before 12:30 p.m. EDT over Tennessee and northern Georgia on Thursday.

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Meteorites aren't very common in Florida, but there have been documented reports over the last 100-plus years, including three in this century.

Fireball sightings were reported in multiple states across the southeastern United States during the day on Thursday, which NASA determined was produced by an asteroidal fragment weighing over a ...

The object, identified as a fireball, "exploded 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, unleashing an energy of about 20 tons of TNT," per CBS News.