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Video Extra: Meteor lights up Florida sky

Posted at 7:20 AM, Apr 01, 2019
and last updated 2019-04-01 09:23:50-04

People across northern Florida were baffled shortly before midnight Saturday by a greenish-blue fireball that seemed to plummet from the sky.

The bright light was from a meteor, according to the National Weather Service. Its flash was caught on the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM),a satellite that takes hundreds of images each second and maps the paths of lightning storms.