{"id":17448,"date":"2025-06-26T22:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T22:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17448\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T22:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T22:34:11","slug":"fireball-seen-over-southeast-us-could-have-been-a-meteor-and-more-may-be-on-the-way-nws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17448\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireball seen over Southeast US could have been a meteor \u2014 and more may be on the way: NWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive fireball that officials said could have been a meteor shot across the daytime sky over the Southeast U.S. Thursday, and more could be on the way, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service received multiple reports of a fireball visible just before noon in the skies above South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Video shared to social media shows the blazing ball descend past a treeline off a South Carolina highway.<br \/>The National Weather Service detected the blaze from satellite images.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.48916968;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36361909\" width=\"825\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/dashcam-captured-moment-fireball-streaked-107205079.jpg\" alt=\"Dashcam footage of a fireball streaking across the sky.\" class=\"wp-image-36361909\"  \/>A fireball could be seen streaking across the daytime sky in South Carolina on Thursday. Kathryn Farr via Storyful<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not certain, but the satellite-based lightning detection shows a streak within cloud free sky over the NC\/VA border, over Gasbury, VA,\u201d the agency posted to X.<\/p>\n<p>The weather service informed the sheriff\u2019s office in Newton County, Georgia, that the fireball was possibly a meteor and \u201cbelieve more could possibly be on the way,\u201d according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive fireball that officials said could have been a meteor shot across the daytime sky over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[4353,16925,159,3036,783,67,132,68,1154,906],"class_list":{"0":"post-17448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-georgia","9":"tag-meteor","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-south-carolina","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-virginia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}