Dashboard and doorbell cameras across several Southeast U.S. states caught glimpses of the fireball that appeared to be plummeting straight down. More than 140 people in Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida and Tennessee reported the object to the American Meteor Society.

The American Meteor Society has described it as a bolide, a large and rare fireball that creates a sonic boom.

More than 200 people across a half-dozen southern states reported witnessing a mysterious object in the sky Thursday.