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The meteor occurred at 8:10 p.m. CST and caused a 2.0 magnitude earthquake, officials with the National Weather Service wrote in an alert. The American Meteor Society has received 399 sightings of the brilliant fireball, which lit up social media.Take a look at some of those sightings:

By Tariq Malik Space.com 1-17-18

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Did you see it? Dash cam by @z_lawler captures fireball meteor light up Michigan sky. pic.twitter.com/JvNXSQFtw1

— Kate Tillotson (@KateWWMT) January 17, 2018

Who saw it? #michiganmeteor #meteor pic.twitter.com/sFf5Ld12Ff

— #CreativeMich (@CreativeMich) January 17, 2018

Dashcam footage of the Michigan meteor that happened tonight: pic.twitter.com/R7QI7kHOtc

— Michigan Bests (@MichiganBests) January 17, 2018

People are telling me they heard a loud bang all across Southeast MI. Was it a #Meteor? Here’s another video: pic.twitter.com/mtxOWvJZfx

— Philip Lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) January 17, 2018

What appeared to be a fireball shooting across the night sky prompted a great deal of reaction on social media Monday evening.

By CBS News 4-10-17

The bright flash was spotted a little before 9 p.m. from as far south as San Diego, north to Los Angeles and as far east as Phoenix. Here is some of what people claim they saw.
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The fireball was spotted at about 10:36 p.m. Tuesday and prompted about 280 reports to the American Meteor Society, primarily from Ontario. But witnesses as far west as Michigan and as far south as Virginia reported the meteor over the eastern Great Lakes region, the organization said on its website.

A large meteor streaked across the sky above the eastern United States and Canada, setting off confusion about a possible plane crash in Toronto. The fireball was spotted at about 10:36 p.m. Tuesday and prompted

By Joshua Rhett Miller New York Post 10-5-16

about 280 reports to the American Meteor Society, primarily from Ontario. But witnesses as far west as Michigan and as far south as Virginia reported the meteor over the eastern Great Lakes region, the organization said on its website.

“Toronto police and fire services received multiple calls about a ‘plane crashing onto the Toronto Harbour,’ but luckily it was just a fireball in the night sky,” the site reads. “The preliminary estimated trajectory plotted from the witness reports shows the meteor was traveling approximately from the South to the North and ended its flight south of Cameron, NY.” ...
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LOS ANGELES -- People from Sacramento to Los Angeles and Las Vegas reported seeing a mysterious light streaking across the sky Wednesday night.

CBS News 7-26-16

The flashes of light spurred numerous calls to the CBS Los Angeles newsroom from people around the metropolitan area.

The light was also visible in other states, including Utah, and spurred a flood of reports and video on social media.

Witnesses said the ball of fire in the sky lasted about 30 seconds.

Vandenberg Air Force Base officials also told CBS Los Angeles they didn't have a launch Wednesday night.

The National Weather Service told the station the incident wasn't weather-related, and said in a tweet: It was seen here in Las Vegas. Looks like space debris burning up. Not confirmed." ...
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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Arizona State University says researchers have found pieces of a small asteroid that left a fiery trail in the sky over eastern Arizona earlier this month.

CBS News 6-30-16

ASU spokeswoman Beth Giudicessi said Wednesday that a team of meteorite hunters recently located 15 meteorites on tribal lands after getting permission to search.

Working in partnership with the White Mountain Apache Tribe, scholars spent more than 130 hours searching the White Mountains.

ASU Center for Meteorite Studies curator Laurence Garvie says the findings offer a "piece of that giant puzzle about where did we come from." ...
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     SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — What appears to be a meteor blazed over the North Bay midday Saturday creating a frenzy of excited tweets and blog posts, and triggering calls to 9-1-1 dispatchers reporting what looked like a possible aircraft going down.

The space rock was actually the second fireball to light up Northern California skies Saturday — the first being the Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base that left an upper atmosphere trail of exhaust lit up by sun.

The American Meteor Society tracked 34 reports of the fireball, all coming in after noon from across the Bay Area, and even as far north as Eureka.

An observer from Lafayette tells the society, “This object was moving very fast at a very steep trajectory. It was intensely clear, and the colors were very obvious. Shiny chrome was definitely part of the ball, as if sunlight were reflecting off of it. . . .
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