{"id":466001,"date":"2026-02-13T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466001\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:43:15","slug":"video-fireball-shoots-across-sky-in-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466001\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Fireball shoots across sky in Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Videos from Indiana and Ohio on Tuesday show a fireball shooting through the night sky. More than 100 reports were made to the American Meteor Society from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin, witnessing the fireball.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More than 100 people witnessed a fireball shooting through the sky late Tuesday night in at least five different states in the Central U.S.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Videos from Indiana<\/a> and Ohio<\/a> showed the white-green ball shooting across the sky Tuesday, just before midnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The fireball is seen through some trees in a snow-covered yard in Hillsboro, Ohio.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(\u00a9 LoflyinJett \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n

According to NASA<\/a>, a fireball is an unusually bright meteor that reaches a visual magnitude of -3 or brighter when seen overhead.<\/p>\n

NASA analyzed the eyewitness accounts and accessed data from publicly available cameras and confirmed the fireball’s first visibility 48 miles above Trinity, Indiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Photo shows the fireball shooting through the sky above a pergola in a backyard in Zionsville, Indiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Trung Chenh \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n

Reports to the American Meteor Society came from Illinois<\/a>, Indiana, Kentucky<\/a>, Ohio and Wisconsin<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

NASA said the fireball moved southeast at 29,000 mph and traveled 48 miles through the atmosphere, disintegrating 27 miles above Laura<\/a>, Ohio.<\/p>\n

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The fireball illuminates the sky in a neighborhood in Saint Clairsville, Ohio on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(P. Graham \/ FOX Weather)<\/p>\n

“The relatively slow speed suggests that the object producing the meteor was a small fragment of an asteroid,” NASA said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fireball was not part of an active meteor shower.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Videos from Indiana and Ohio on Tuesday show a fireball shooting through the night sky. More than 100…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-466001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}