I was in Western, MD of the Cumberland, MD area. I was asleep and awakened by a loud boom at about 4:30am. We are being told the sonic boom we heard is possible a meteorite had hit Earth through here and landed somewhere in Virginia. Some folks have seen it start as far North in PA. However, nothing is confirming this yet.

4:25 AM sounds exactly right. It looked red/orange to me, huge meteor, lit up the sky in Sterling Virginia, lasted for a good 3-5 seconds. It was crazy!

I was running on the track at Liberty High School in Bealeton, VA when it happened. My running buddy and I both watched the apparent meteor streak across the northern sky. It was moving relatively slowly (for a meteorite) and it lit up the entire track like day light. It had an orange burning glow around the main blue fireball. As described above, there were two main burns. The first was short, and got our attention. The second was longer. I've never seen a meteor as bright as this was. We both stopped running and just stood there and watched it. It was awesome! It disappeared behind the hills and tree line, and I also expected it to make impact with how large the fireball was and how low it was moving.

FR: Northern sky ... slow meteor. Sounds like it may be an early member of the annual Draconid shower. The shower is set to peak on the afternoon (EDT) of the 8th. Forecasts say the shower could reach "storm" proportions, at up to 1,000 an hour. The best views will loikely be from Europe and Africa, but we should probably be on the lookout each night through the 8th anyway, if skies clear off as forecast.

I was driving towards the Pentagon on RT 110 at 04:20 am. As I took the ramp for the 14th St Bridge I saw the fireball. It was bright red/white heading towards the pentagons south parking.

I was headed west on the outerloop of 695 near 83. On my left hand side I saw what I thought was a shooting star. It was burning bright a red firey glow.

Columbia,, MD. I saw bright flashes of light in my bedroom and thought it was a thunderstorm. However, I knew that there were no storms in the area. So, I laid in my bed, staring at the ceiling waiting for the next flash or boom. Nothing else happened. Of course, at 4:20am, all sorts of things start running through my mind as to what those bright flashing lights were...

I was driving to work on the interloop right pass Stevenson Rd on 695 at 4;24, when I saw a big orange white glow with sparks flying behind it. It appeared to exploded and turned to a bunch of white small pieces in different directions. I am so glad someone else saw this...it was wild!!!!!

I saw a bright light green flash through my window to the north at about 4:25AM. It was headed down at about a 45 degree angle and disappeared behind trees. I listened for a crash but heard nothing.

I was traveling south on I-75 just north of Pontiac, MI and I saw an object to the Southeast. It moved at about a 45 degree angle going from upper right to lower left. It was larger that a falling star and much closer. It was blue-green in color and lasted only a couple of seconds

It was about 4:20 ish in the morning and I was heading west on Nokes Blvd in Sterling, VA. I had just crossed over Cascades blvd when directly in front of me in the sky my friend and I saw what we thought was either a large firework or a satelite fall from the sky in a green/blue flash trailing blue behind it. you could see a white/gold ball at the head of the falling star. It slowly disintigrated as it sort of seemed to fall behind the trees and dirt mound on the right side of the road. I slowed down to almost 30 mph in a 45 zone because i was so taken with the beauty of the whole thing. I swore it had landed on Dulles towncenter mall or the townhouses near-by but then again perspective is strange when determining these things.

I was driving on 43 in White Marsh toward 695 i was at the light across from the mall at about 4:20 i saw a huge fireball it had a tail nothing like I've ever seen before headed east very crazy.

I was in Frostburg Maryland getting ready for bed and heard a very loud boom like someone falling onto the roof...the house shook a little bit then nothing

I was driving south on rt.202 in Malvern,Pa.at 4:23am when I saw a huge bright green fireball with a white and orange tail come down at a 30 degree angle into the woods next to the highway.It didn't make any noise when it hit the ground.It was a spectacular sight to see.

With the recent "space junk" returning to earth, I had recently seen another story of more on it's way to earth. Could that have possibly been some of that? Just curious

FR: Sounds like this object was moving very fast, lasting only seconds. Space junk is pretty slow.

My husband asked me to look and see if anyone else heard anything. It shook our house he thought it was another earthquake. He heard it and felt it, but did not see it. We live right on the Va/WVA line, Star Tannery.

My husband saw a slow moving meteor in the sky over Stanford, KY last night around 9 p.m. EST (Tuesday evening)

I saw the HUGE blue streak in the sky on 10/4, around 4:25am. It was traveling north and went over Montgomery Street in Laurel, MD. The orb, which was almost as LARGE AS THE MOON, was blue/green and followed by a long tail of blue, fading into yellow and white. It was visible for about 10 seconds and as the orb disappeared, lightening lit up the sky behind it! It was spectacular and although being a long-time observer of the night sky, I have never seen anything like this before!! Awesome!

We were driving north on Rt. 29 in central VA about 35 miles south of Charlottesville, VA and saw the same fireball in the northwest sky.

I was driving on 22/322 30 miles northwest of Harrisburg PA. At 4:22 A.M. I saw a series of bright green lights that lasted 3 seconds. I looked West and saw a green ball in the sky dissipate at about 35 degrees. The flash was extremely bright lighting up the road and mountainside as far as I could see. It startled me so much I hit the brakes.

I was driving on 22/322 30 miles northwest of Harrisburg PA. At 4:22 A.M. I saw a series of bright green lights that lasted 3 seconds. I looked West and saw a green ball in the sky dissipate at about 35 degrees. The flash was extremely bright lighting up the road and mountainside as far as I could see. It startled me so much I hit the brakes.