MAYS LANDING, N.J. 鈥� A New Jersey police sergeant inadvertently captured footage of a large meteor streaking across the sky.
Hamilton Township police Sgt. Michael Virga he was on patrol early Sunday when his vehicle dashcam captured footage of a fireball just after 3 a.m.
He says the fireball took him by surprise and 鈥渓it up the entire sky like a lime green streak.鈥� He wasn鈥檛 sure he captured it until he checked the dashcam later.
Township of Hamilton Police Dashcam Captures Fireball
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On 12/2 at 3:09 am, Sgt. Michael Virga was on patrol when his vehicle dashcam caught a fireball in the sky.
The American Meteor Society confirms that the fireball was indeed a meteor. The society says it received multiple reports about it.
It was a bolide, which is a very large, very bright meteor that explodes in the atmosphere.
Just over a week earlier, almost 70 people reported seeing a fireball passing over the mid-Atlantic.
