There appears to have been a #fireball #meteor over the Mid Atlantic Sun 10:55 PM EST. Data fem American Meteor Soc pic.twitter.com/JFVdPeCg2q — Justin Berk (@JustinWeather) September 15, 2014

A very bright meteor was seen streaking across the sky above parts of New Jersey on Sunday night, according to eyewitness accounts.

The fireball flashed over the mid-Atlantic region around 11 p.m., according to a report on Newsworks.com.

The American Meteor Society told JustinWeather.com that there were 40 reports of a meteor sighting in about a half-hour. Most observers asserted they saw two flashes. People saw the sky light up from as far south as Charlotteseville, Va. and as far west as Pittsburgh, according to the weather blog run by professional meteorologist Justin Berk.

An observer from Evesham described what he saw as "brilliant white, yellow and green. Very low on the horizon and straight down."

A woman from Piscataway wrote on the American Meteor Society's website, "I thought it was a plane falling out of the sky for a moment. It was super bright and dropping straight down. It looked very very close."