Something unusual was spotted over north Alabama on Sunday night.
Storm tracker Drew Richards shared on X (formerly known as Twitter) a video of a bright object streaking across the sky in north Alabama just after 9:30 p.m. Sunday:
The object's identity was unknown, but the American Meteor Society said meteoroids sometimes flare in the sky as they drop through the atmosphere
The definition of a fireball, is “a very bright meteor, generally brighter than magnitude -4, which is about the same magnitude of the planet Venus in the morning or evening sky.”
The AMS keeps a log of fireball reports, and while Sunday’s has not been added yet, there were two separate sightings on March 2.
It’s not a big time of the year for spotting meteoroids, according to the AMS. March is typically the slowest month of the year for spotting fireballs in the Northern Hemisphere.