VIDEO: 'Giant Fireball' lights up the night sky

If you were outside enjoying the weather Wednesday night, you might have spotted a cosmic light show streak across the Iowa sky.

The meteor burning through the atmosphere appeared to be a “giant fireball", it was spotted just after ten o'clock Wednesday night. Reports have been coming into the KCRG-TV9 newsroom from viewers who witnessed the event across Eastern Iowa, southwest Wisconsin and northwest Illinois.

Additional reports have been coming in from Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Indiana and Michigan.

So what was it that everyone saw? There has been no official confirmation to determine what fell from the sky. One possibility, discussed by the National Weather Service, is that what many people across the Midwest saw was a meteor. The bright meteor may be related to a weak ongoing meteor shower, the Gamma Virginids. Read more from the Weather Water Cooler.

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