“Apparently he was amazed,” the department said on its Facebook page. The post has since been shared thousands of times.

This particular meteor was especially bright — so much so that the American Meteor Society described it as a fireball, meaning its brightness was at about the same magnitude as Venus in a morning or night sky.

“The AMS has received 330 reports so far about a fireball event over Northeastern U.S.,” the organization said.

Most witnesses saw the fireball in Maine, but it was also seen in Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ontario and Quebec, according to the AMS.

Other dashboard cameras captured the fireball, including one from the police department in Cumberland, Maine.

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“It was the most impressive one we’ve ever seen!” the department said on Facebook.

Here’s a compilation of videos capturing the fireball:

While several thousand fireball-magnitude meteors pass through Earth’s atmosphere daily, many aren’t seen by humans. The majority occur over oceans and uninhabited regions and are impossible to see, thanks to daylight.

“Those that occur at night also stand little chance of being detected due to the relatively low numbers of persons out to notice them,” according to the American Meteor Society. “Additionally, the brighter the fireball, the more rare is the event.”

The organization encourages people to report fireball sightings.

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As for the Portland Police Department, they had a little fun with their dash-cam video.

“The meteor (or alien spaceship) was caught on camera at approximately 0050 hours,” the department posted on Facebook. “Let’s hope the visitors are friendly. They could just be some of Stephen King’s friends on their way to visit him. Whomever they are I’m sure we could win them over with a whoopie pie.”

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The Maine Mineral and Gem Museum is offering a $20,000 reward to anyone who recovers a piece of the meteorite that weighs at least 2.2 pounds, the Associated Press reported.

Museum director Barbra Barrett told the Portland Press Herald “there’s a real possibility to recover the meteorite.”

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Just last week, mineral museum officials met with consultants about establishing a Maine Fireball Network, which would consist of special cameras that would gather information throughout the state about the speed and orbit of fireballs, the newspaper reported. That data can help researchers track down meteor fragments, Barrett said.

“While we wish we were already operational, I’m just glad this didn’t happen last week as it would have been one heck of a distraction,” Barrett told the newspaper. “We are very excited.”