A Mysterious Green Fireball Just Exploded Over the U.S. At 100,000 Mph

There’s something deeply humbling about waking up at 5 a.m., stumbling toward the coffee machine, and learning a piece of interplanetary shrapnel just screamed across the Midwest sky at nearly 100,000 miles per hour. That’s what happened on Nov. 23, when a bright green fireball tore over the Great Lakes region and gave the Midwest its own cosmic jump scare.

Dozens of witnesses saw the meteor streak above Michigan, Wisconsin, and Indiana before it exploded into a bright flash. NASA later confirmed the object was moving around 98,500 mph as it sliced through the atmosphere.

Michigan Storm Chasers caught the entire descent on video, first revealing the footage in a Facebook post. Another clip sent to the American Meteorological Society (AMS) showed the green streak arcing across the sky fro