An eagle-eyed photographer captured the moment a shining fireball cut across the sky in southeast New Hampshire early Saturday evening.<\/p>\n
Rob Wright, a professional photographer based in New Hampshire, shared dash camera footage of the suspected meteor \u2014 which he called a \u201cbright green boldie\u201d \u2014 blazing straight downwards while he was cruising through Portsmouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was one of the best I\u2019ve seen and likely the best I\u2019ve ever caught on camera,\u201d Wright boasted on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n Dash camera footage captured a fireball beaming in the sky on Saturday. Rob Wright\/Storyful<\/p>\n Wright was approaching a traffic circle in the coastal town when a pulsing yellow light appeared in the sky. It tracked downwards in a straight line and released a brighter spurt of light before disappearing entirely, all in the span of eight seconds, according to the video.<\/p>\n Others in Nashua and Londonderry, both located southwest of Portsmouth and closer to the Massachusetts border, told WMUR<\/a> that they also saw the suspected meteor.<\/p>\n The \u201cbright green boldie\u201d blazed over multiple towns in New Hampshire. Rob Wright\/Storyful<\/p>\n Several other highlighted sightings around the same time in Dover, Bedford, Rindge, Hooksett and Jaffrey, which are all within a 90-mile radius of Portsmouth, according to the American Meteor Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n Locals who follow Wright\u2019s work reported seeing the fireball, too. One woman who also lives in Portsmouth commented that she \u201cthought it must have been a firework.\u201d <\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear what exactly the fireball was. <\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear what exactly the supposed fireball was. Rob Wright\/Storyful<\/p>\n Meteorites present similarly to a fireball when they\u2019re plummeting from orbit \u2014 but leave a more obvious impact.<\/p>\n In August, a 3-foot meteor splintered in the air while it was flying over Georgia and left fragments scattered all over Newton County. The explosion caused a sonic boom<\/a> equivalent to 20 tons of TNT exploding at once.<\/p>\n Pieces of the meteor were found all over the county, including one that crashed through the roof<\/a> of a home.<\/p>\n