VIDEOS: Another apparent fireball spotted over northwest Ohio early Thursday
wtol.com • • science
Key Points:
- A green fireball was observed early Thursday morning around 4:52 a.m. across northwest Ohio, southern Michigan, northern Ohio, and parts of western Pennsylvania and southern West Virginia.
- Multiple videos and eyewitness reports came from locations including Maumee, Swanton, Fostoria, and Perrysburg in Ohio.
- This event marks the third fireball sighting over Ohio in just over a week, following a significant asteroid explosion over Medina County on March 17 and another fireball over the Great Lakes region on March 24.
- University of Toledo professor Michael Cushing explained that small meteors frequently enter Earth's atmosphere but usually burn up unnoticed; larger meteors can create audible booms due to supersonic speeds, though no boom was reported with Thursday's fireball.
