WASHINGTON – People all over the D.C. region reported seeing a green streak of light flash across the north sky Friday night.
What was described as a green meteor was seen 草莓传媒 listeners in Arlington, Woodbridge, Bethesda and Colesville just before 8 p.m. Twitter uses reported seeing the phenomenon along the East Coast and even into New York City.
草莓传媒 has reached out to NASA expert Greg Redfern and NOAA Friday night looking for answers. But as of 10 p.m. it remained unclear what the green flash was.
Kim Samperton, of Montgomery County, was driving past a golf course when she saw something zipping rapidly across the sky. At first she thought it was a plane.
“It was sort of a round green glow, but a really pretty green, like a yellowy green,” Samperton says. “You couldn’t help but think it was like a shooting star or something like that.”
But she said the bright flash was larger than a shooting star.
“it was beautiful. You couldn’t help noticing it,” she says.
Samperton and Harriett Sellows, of Arlington, both said the flash traveled west to east.
Sellows was walking along 16th Street in Arlington with friends when she saw it.
“Suddenly it turned green and we realized we were looking at a comet or a whatever. It was really quite something,” she says.
David Johnson, of Woodbridge, was on the Prince William County Parkway near Interstate 95 when he saw a blue-green ball with a white sparking trail.
“It lit up the whole sky,” Johnson says.
.@ Saw it in Gaithersburg.
— amccaf1 (@amccaf1)
@ Saw it in Frederick, MD
— Scott Low (@Scott_Low)
@ wow I sawit on way home I thought it was a fawling star near cb
— scott parker (@Hillbillyhicks)
Whoa! Sure looked like a bolide/very bright low in NE at 7:53 pm ET from Bethesda, MD, just inside the n DC Beltway. Anybody else?
— Richard Kerr (@rkerr46)
A just passed over my head in ! Felt it rumble. That’s one big wish!! Does that mean I won the lotto?!?
— Robert Zepeda (@RobertZepeda)
Did I just see a meteor or the brightest falling star ever?In the East toward Philly.
— Sharon Mester (@wahoomes)
Did I just see a green long-tailed over ? @ that was super cool looking!
— Karen Tucker (@KT_10S)
草莓传媒’s Kyle Cooper and Amanda Iacone contributed to this report. Follow on Twitter.
