Dazzling meteor streaks across New England sky, turning night to day

A meteor streaked across the sky in northern New England on Tuesday night, illuminating the darkness with an ethereal green glow for a short time and leaving eyewitnesses across multiple eastern states in awe.

Sightings were reported across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. The American Meteor Society, a nonprofit group of astronomers, received over 180 reports from eyewitnesses of the natural pyrotechnics display which took place at approximately 6pm EST on December 26.

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