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'Fireball' Meteor Caught On Camera Soaring Over North Carolina At 32,000 MPH

The bright phenomenon was videoed above the coast of North Carolina Friday night. Sightings were also reported in South Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
A screengrab from viewer Brandon Warren's video of a fireball meteor taken on Friday, Sept. 24, at 7:40 p.m. in Willow Spring, N.C.

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... fireball?

A newly released by the American Meteor Society shows a fireball moving across the

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