Mysteries solved: What caused those strange sightings in the sky?

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - From a flashing blue streak to falling smoke, we now know what caused strange sightings in the sky above Hawaii this week.

Mysterious blue streak

Lucas Zarro’s security cameras in Kihei caught a bright light shooting over homes at around 10:38 p.m. Tuesday.

And it wasn’t just the Valley Isle that got lit up.

The Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope atop Mauna Kea also caught the bright light shooting over Hawaii Island.

Hawaii News Now confirmed with John O’Meara, chief scientist of the Keck Observatory , that the object is a meteorite, likely no bigger than a basketball.

O’Meara says the rock was likely traveling hundreds if not thousands of miles an hour as it burned up and broke apart in the Earth’s atmosphere.

He say’s the blue green flash indicates it w