Report: Meteor streaks across metro Atlanta skies, damages home
Courtesy Alive A fireball streaking across the sky was spotted in four states including Georgia on Thursday afternoon Social media lit up with images of the workable meteor entering Earth s atmosphere and fragmenting across Georgia and South Carolina around p m on June The light show was also accompanied by a loud boom that was heard across parts of the metro The American Meteor Society identified the object as a bolide a large and rare fireball that creates a sonic boom Henry County Urgency Management Agency passed along to us that a citizen broadcasted that a rock fell through their ceiling around the time of the reports of the earthquake We are presuming that a piece of the object fell through their roof pic twitter com eLEG r BCF NWS Atlanta NWSAtlanta June According to a analysis from The Guardian a fragment pierced the roof of a home in Henry County cracking the laminate flooring and concrete underneath No one was injured The National Weather Operation ratified that a meteor or space junk was seen blazing across the state and that the sonic boom led specific to believe it was an earthquake THREAD It appears that a meteor or space junk crossed the skies of north Georgia just before PM currently Thursday Reports of an earthquake came in shortly after followed by sightings video of a flash across the sky seen as far as Macon Upstate South Carolina pic twitter com PfFUJfRbTh NWS Atlanta NWSAtlanta June The post Assessment Meteor streaks across metro Atlanta skies damages home appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta