1:30 PM | Meteor lights up the Mid-Atlantic skies on Sunday night; video captures a brief change from night-to-day as meteor passes over central PA

[Widespread area of eyewitness accounts from last night's meteor according to the American Meteor Society]

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A very bright meteor was seen streaking across the skies throughout the Mid-Atlantic region on Sunday night according to dozens and dozens of eyewitnesses. The fireball flashed over the Mid-Atlantic region around 11pm according to numerous reports and turned night into day for a few seconds as captured on video in State College, PA. The American Meteor Society (AMS) tracks fireballs and they have received more than 150 reports from Virginia to New Hampshire and as far west as central Ohio (Google map above shows range of reports; Google map available at http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2014/2187; courtesy AMS). The meteor was so bright in fact that numerous reports have poured in from the highly populated areas of DC, Philly and New York City. Jesse Ferrell of Accu Weather (State College, PA) recorded video on “dropcam” webcams in State College, PA and posted this to YouTube (http://youtu.be/Q3Mu5bFKjHY) which captures the lighting up of the sky as the meteor passed overhead.