More than 920 witnesses have reported a large fireball over mid-eastern on January 30th around 6:16pm ET (23:16 UT). The fireball was seen primarily from Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, but witnesses from New Jersey, North Carolina, New York, Delaware, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and even Ontario also reported seeing the fireball.

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Below is the witness heat map as well as the estimated ground trajectory of the event:

Below is a video captured on January 30th, 2016 at 6:16PM from a Piper Archer piloted by (©) Mike Grossman (filmed via GoPro, audio is of Laguardia Tower and Provided by LiveATC.net)

Below is a video of the fireball shared with the AMS by (©) Chris Dalton from Gretna, VA – Note that the time stamp is off by one hour.

Here is another video captured from a plane shared by (©) Brandon Jacobsen – “long final approach into runway 25 at Sky Manor (N40)”

Here is another video shared by (©) Alexander Salvador on Youtube

Below is a video shared by (©) Cheapo Findo on Youtube

Below is a dashcam video shared by (©) adrian burns on Youtube. Caught from Lancaster, OH.

Vincent Perlerin Vincent Perlerin, PhD used to be a researcher in Computational Linguistics. He is now a software developer, a web designer, a community manager, an illustrator and many other things. He is working on the American Meteor Society under the supervision of Mike Hankey. Vincent is the lead developer of all the AMS projects. He's also the lead developer of the International Meteor Organization Website and the IMO online Databases management system.