{"id":585842,"date":"2026-02-13T00:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/585842\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:36:10","slug":"fireball-seen-shooting-through-night-sky-across-multiple-midwestern-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/585842\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireball seen shooting through night sky across multiple midwestern states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Videos from Indiana and Ohio showed the white-green ball shooting across the sky Tuesday, just before midnight.<\/p>\n<p>According to NASA, a fireball is an unusually bright meteor that reaches a visual magnitude of -3 or brighter when seen overhead.<\/p>\n<p>NASA analyzed the eyewitness accounts and accessed data from publicly available cameras and confirmed the fireball\u2019s first visibility 48 miles above Trinity, Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>Reports to the American Meteor Society came from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>NASA said the fireball moved southeast at 29,000 mph and traveled 48 miles through the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>It disintegrated 27 miles above Laura, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe relatively slow speed suggests that the object producing the meteor was a small fragment of an asteroid,\u201d NASA said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38475168\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fireball-seen-trees-snow-covered-121111954.jpg\" alt=\"A fireball streaks through the night sky, visible through trees in a snow-covered yard.\" class=\"wp-image-38475168\"  \/>Reports to the American Meteor Society came from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin. Instagram\/@loflyinjett<\/p>\n<p>The fireball was not part of an active meteor shower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 100 people witnessed a fireball shooting through the sky late Tuesday night in at least five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":585843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[9829,1818,2862,357,16925,117747,1573,159,783,67,132,68,1154,1398],"class_list":{"0":"post-585842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-human-interest","9":"tag-illinois","10":"tag-indiana","11":"tag-kentucky","12":"tag-meteor","13":"tag-midwest","14":"tag-ohio","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-space","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-us-news","21":"tag-wisconsin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116060526174587723","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585842","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=585842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}