I was sitting outside with friends at my house in Mechanicsburg, PA. At about 9:45 the yard was lit up brightly, about as brightly as a large, close lightening strike, but it was sustained. We looked up and saw a bright blue-green fireball almost directly overhead, travelling roughly from the southeast to the northwest. It was visible for 4 or 5 seconds with no sound.

I saw the same object from Kensington, Maryland at the same time. I was tying a kayak on top of my car and facing north. It moved East to West and lit up the sky with a bright green glow. I saw a second meteor, traveling the same direction, directly overhead about an hour later. No photo though!

Additional info ..... The bright meteor was between 15 and 20 degrees above the horizon and was visible for about three seconds from my perspective. Again I was in Kensington MD, facing north, and the path was east to west. The second meteor was directly overhead.

Link to a news article about the object:

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/261647

I was walking up Connecticut Avenue in Washington, DC and saw it as well! Biggest shooting star I've ever seen!

My girlfriend saw the same meteor but from Arlington, VA at the exact same time. We were in my car driving north on Glebe rd and the meteor was in the northeast sky. She said it was red with a blue outline. It freaked us out a little at first because right when she saw it, a bunch of unmarked govt vehicles lit up their lights a took off behind me. Coincidental........i think?

Absolutely. My wife and I saw it at approx. 9:45PM in Media, PA. Huge fireball that started with a flash and then had a glowing head. It was to the North and was headed West/Southwest. It was low on the horizon, just above a normal treeline and lasted about 5 seconds. Absolutely beautiful.

Steven Moore, Media, PA.

Here's another article: http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/261647

I was at the Orioles game and saw it too. I was sitting on the 3rd base side, so I was facing to the Northeast. It went roughly from the Southeast to the Northwest and was fairly bright in the sky. It only seemed visible for a few seconds and disappeared as it went over to the left of the Hilton Hotel. I have no guess as to how high it was, but it seemed low in the sky.

I wasn't at the game but I was able to see it from home on TV. It started at home plate and traveled into the left field seats. I beleive it originated from the tejada galaxy and drove in three runs :)

I was there and saw it too. I was sitting on the first base side and it came from behind us and went forward towards the hilton. we didn't know what it was, but it was neat to see!

My wife and I saw the same thing at that time at our home in Westminster last night.
It was pretty wild. Much lower in the sky than a shooting star. It almost seemed the height of a fire work, but there was no sound to it which led me to believe it wasn't one. It lasted at least a second in the sky. Pretty crazy.

My son and I saw the meteor when we were driving in northwest Virginia in Loudoun County between the towns of Leesburg and Purcellville. It was extremely bright, had a slight green hue, and was heading in a north, northwesterly direction (as best I could tell). It lasted for about 2-5 seconds.

I was in Section 14 (first base side, lower deck) at the game and saw it. It was a greenish streak. It seemed to come from overhead and disappear behind the Hilton. We weren't sure what it was, thought maybe it was a firework, that's what it looked like. Very cool to find out it was a comet.

FR: Not a comet. A meteor. Big difference.

I was at the Oriole game last night, and I definitely saw it. I thought it was a firework. I was sitting down the right field line, so from my view it streaked across the sky from the warehouse to above the hotel in centerfield. It was very bright...greenish yellow and only lasted for a second or two. Like I said, I just assumed it was a firework.

I definitely saw it. I was sitting 10 rows up off of first base and could see it streak across almost between the Hilton and Zenith Apt building - so maybe 50-60 degrees high due north but traveling SSE to NNW Extremely bright with a multi-colored tail, almost like an artifical rocket but too high. No pics/video.

That's probably why the O's won. Wins are so rare, they only occur during meteor showers... :)

I SAW IT TOO! I was driving north on Falls Road between Cold Spring and Northern Parkway, it was greenish and VERY bright! I only saw it for a split second, the trees quickly blocked it. I've never seen anything like it, so I'm glad I'm not the only one that mentioned it...

I saw it looking out my window at @ 9:45. I live in No. Baltimore County and saw as I looked north out my window. It was moving westerly at a 2oclock to 8oclock trajectory. It was quite bright but happened too sudden to react and capture via photo.

I saw it come over my apartment building in King of Prussia, PA. It was bright blue for a few seconds and it had broken up into several pieces for about a second before it burned out. It was heading W - NW and was about 40 degrees above the Horizon. At first it looked like a blue firework falling from the sky but it appeared to be too high for conventional fireworks and I heard no sounds.

I refuse to believe this.
People IN the stadium DURING an Orioles game?
Not this year.

I was at the game with Lindsay who posted above. Sitting on first base side down the line toward right field. It was blueish/green and yellow went across center field by the Hilton. Looked like a firework... How cool that it was a meteor though!

I saw it from my NNW facing living room window in Edgewater, just south of Annapolis. It was a very bright, almost white light surrounded by a greenish glow, with a bright, distinctly green wavy tail. I was facing north-west, and it appeared to be moving away from me. I am a poor judge of hight above the horizon, but I had the impression that it was quite low and close. I thought it looked like it was right over, and moved along, the South River. It was visible for about 3-4 seconds. At first, I too thought it mignt be a firework.

FR: Because of their speed and brilliance, these objects are often judged by observers to be much closer than they really are. They're usually 60 to 80 miles above the ground when they light up, and can be that far away or more.

I saw this in Middle River, MD. At first I thought it was someone setting off fireworks because it was gold and blue green, but there was no sound with it and it was the only one I saw.

"FR: Not a comet. A meteor. Big difference."

Yeah I realized right after I submitted it, I meant meteor of course.

Yup; sitting 1st base side upper deck & saw it.

From behind home plate... it was a real nice scorcher... a fireballer with low trajectory and explosive type flareout... cool to watch and good luck too....

I'm so happy to know someone else saw this last night...I thought i was imagining things. My fiance and I live on Conncecticut avenue in Van Ness and we saw it fly past our north-facing window. It was definitely going east to west, and 9:45 p.m. sounds pretty accurate. It was pretty amazing and bright!

I saw it driving home from work last night, a little closer to 10pm at the intersection of Powder Mill Road and Edmonston Road in PG County, heading towards Laurel (north). The sky flashed twice, first bright, then not so much, and then I saw a meteor streak across the sky for about 5 seconds. It was whitish-blue and off to my right, so that would be the east-northeast region of the sky. I had my music up, so I didn't hear anything. Biggest meteor I've ever seen!

I saw it in the riverside neighborhood of south baltimore. I too thought it was a firework - though it was much brighter. I was looking up my block towards the city ( facing north) and it seemed to go from east to west

I saw it while playing baseball at Shirley Povich Field in Bethesda, MD. I was playing third looking toward first base (facing NNE) and saw it streak down behind the trees from right to left.

I was driving north on 295 and saw this shoot through the air and seem to then dissapate before hitting the groud. It was a blueish green streak

http://www.wgal.com/video/19984330/index.html

WGAL has video

FR: That video is of another meteor, in July 2009. We wrote about it at the time and published links here to the same York Water Company video.

I saw this thing too! Was in Lancaster, PA in driving down the road and I saw this shimmering green light out the windshield. I thot it was heat lightning and looked out my side window and saw this red yellow fireball streaking northwest. lasted about two second and I could distinctly see the pieces breaking off!! Awesome. My friend saw it too.

My wife and I were on the front porch here in Manassas, VA. I was using Polaris to collimate a telescope when my wife said, "OH OH OH!!" It was getting bright like a car's headlights were on us. I looked up and saw a dazzlingly bright green meteor going down behind the trees. It was moving down from Cepheus' chest to the middle of Cassiopeia.

It was the brightest I have ever seen by far.
-Tom

My husband and I were relaxing in the jacuzzi on our back patio in oley (berks county), PA when I saw it streak across the sky it was amazing how bright it was. Luckily I found this post because my husband didn't believe me since his eyes were closed.

At about 9:45pm, I was walking my dog on a dark fire road with a LED headlamp at central prettyboy reservoir in Northern Maryland and could see it to the north towards my side and back, but it happened too quick to notice for sure the direction it was going. It was a very bright white that was much brighter than the LED light I was using and it did seem low above the trees, lasted about 2 seconds and was silent. It really gave me a little scare to suddenly see such a bright light come from out of nowhere in an area where there are just about no lights (it was about 9:45pm). This was my second good meteor sighting. A long time ago, I saw in NW Baltimore a large green fireball fall almost straight down for what seemed like a few seconds towards the horizon. Neat stuff.

I saw it while driving home in Frederick last night! I thought it was a crazy firework shooting sideways. Soo glad to know I'm not losing my mind! It seemed so close to the ground!

We were camping in Gettysburg, PA, sitting by the campfire when my daughter said she saw a light shoot across the sky. Of course we were all facing the other way, so she's the only one who saw it. I showed her the picture above and she said that was what she had seen. She was facing N/NE and she said it moved quickly from right to left. By the time she said something and we all turned around, it was already gone. It only lasted a few seconds and she said it disappeared behind the trees.

I was heading north on 895, and was just before the harbor tunnel at this time and saw it out of the corner of my eye in the southeast sky. I definitely thought it was a firework of some sort.

My brother and i were standing on back porch deck from 9pm-1030pm looking north east, and saw an AWSOME meteorite with tail lasting 5 seconds shooting from northwest to north really low. it illuminated a bright greenish color. Amazing!(around 10pm maybe a bit earlier)

FR: Directions don't help much without knowing your location.

I was driving 50 west bound just prior to rt.404 on the eastern shore when I saw it. It happened right around 9:45-9:55. look like a Green flash then a streak of light almost like a firework but it was being shot straight down.

I was in Ellicott City watching an outdoor production of Hamlet at the Patuxent Female Institute. My first thought was that it was part of the production but soon realized that it wasn't. I'm so glad I got to see it. Huge, brillian. blue-green, East to West.

I saw it from my 8th floor apartment window in DC. My window faces north, and the meteor appeared to be moving to the west. It was so bright and large that I thought it was going to make contact with the ground within the city limits! I saw a very bright bluish green flash after initially seeing the meteor encased in the same bluish green light. I could have imagined this but believed that I saw the actual rock inside the light!

I saw it while I was driving home from Ocean City via 50 West, I was in Talbot County at the time. It was the scariest thing I've ever seen in my life, I called the police and they thought I was crazy. "Yes, I saw a huge green ball streak down and explode in the sky."

I saw it too, I thought it was closer to 10pm. I'm near Hagerstown, Md. Blue green with a orange tail. It was in the NE heading straight down.

I am sure it was space junk because of the green I saw in it.

There are a few reports from south central PA that seem to corroborate this. They even managed to pick up a brief appearance on a security camera:

http://www.wgal.com/news/24039734/detail.html

I wonder where it landed? I happened to be facing my easterly bay window in Berkeley Springs, WV, when I saw the bright meteor in the NE sky heading north about 35 degrees above the horizon @ 9:57pm for about 2-3 seconds. Unfortunately, my oak tree blocked most of the view. I immediately posted it to the American Meteor Society’s log page, along with about 32 others (so far) …

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/fireball_log2010.htm

http://www.ydr.com/ci_15379570?source=email Here ya go...vid that I obtained from Jeff at the York Water co.

I was walking in Valley Forge Park between 9:30-9:50 on Thurs, 06/24/10 and saw a bright light that turned aqua blue streaking throught the sky east to west. I thought it was a firework but then realized there was no sound and also no immediate town that would have shot it off. My partner saw it first commented and then I saw the end. A couple of seconds in duration and one of the brightest I ever saw. WOW

My apologies for this late post, I've been looking for people to corroborate my story, and this blog had been recently recommended to me. My wife and I live north of Bethel, PA on Blue Mountain. On June 24th we were relaxing on our deck, and at approximately 9:45, the deck and woods around us lit up brightly. At that moment we witnessed an object streak across the sky directly above us. Based on the orientation of our house and interstate 78 three miles south of us, I can confidently say it was traveling almost directly east to west. The object was a bright white to orange, with a long lime green tail. The sighting lasted approximately one second. There was no sound.
In addition, less than 60 seconds later we heard a distinct boom west of us, in the direction the object was traveling. It was loud enough that the sound woke my neighbor and his wife from sleep (found out the next day). I am not suggesting these two incidents are related, however I wanted to supply the facts of what occurred in case anyone else heard the "boom" that we heard.

Keith R. Heberling

FR: My bet is the boom was a sonic boom, which often follow these events. The meteor enters the atmosphere at supersonic speeds, triggering the boom. But it takes the sound some time to reach the observer.

I was driving home last night around10pm was two miles from my house where the land is flat.. corn is grown during the season. I was looking in the direction of my house as I turned to the crossroad of my street and saw a aqua blue light heading almost straight down from the sky right toward my house. there was a car in front of me driving slow because the roads were Ice, so I called my wife and told her what I saw, she was there with her sister they both were kind of frantic. she said something hit the roof or someone is upstairs jumped from the bed to the floor because it was loud. I walked around my house and didnt see anything on the ground or the roof.. Wierd.. 12-14-10

I saw it last year in edgewood maryland as well. I took the dog outback, it was very dark with some trees. This extremely bright light came out of no where. Pretty crazy how bright it was.