Great balls of fire. Scores of people all over the Midwest and Upper Midwestern United States reported seeing flames and fiery explosions in the sky Sunday night. The Associated Press reports that from southeastern Wisconsin to as far as Des Moines, Iowa and St. Louis, people reported seeing balls of fire, possibly meteors, streaking across the sky on Sunday night.
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that calls flooded 911 operators and area police departments, the Missouri Highway Patrol said. Callers described the spectacle in various ways, some saying it looked like a plane crash and others calling it a ball of fire in the sky.
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A preliminary report Sunday indicated that the lights were from a meteor, said Maj. April Cunningham, a spokeswoman for North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, which watches for airborne threats to the United States and Canada, reports AP.
"We had a pilot reporting seeing a meteor and that's really all the information we have tonight," Cunningham said. Reports came from residents in central Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Wisconsin and Minnesota, the Missouri Highway Patrol said.
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According to the Post-Dispatch, the patrol forwarded the information to the Federal Aviation Administration and had no reports of damage or landings from the potential meteor or space debris.
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