A bright fireball was seen over the skies of the U.S. Midwest and Canada at around 00:38 UTC on March 4, 2025 (19:38 EST on March 3), with 85 people reporting sightings.
Observations came from Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Maryland, along with some sightings from Ontario, Canada. Observers reported that the fireball showed hues of green and blue and bits of orange and white.
“I walked outside to my car and at first thought it was a very close plane and then it was too close and I thought potentially a helicopter,” Luke W said in one report on the website from his location just north on Midland. “But I very quickly then realized what it really was. Very cool experience.”
“I’ve seen many before and always looking, I’ve never seen one like this. So bright it startled me while driving and it lit my dashboard with light,” observer AJ W reported.
“What an unbelievable sight,” Sebastian M from Pickering, Ontario said.
Tiffany from Palmyra, Pennsylvania, said it almost looked like a green light from a plane that was heading on an arc to the ground. “It was too perfect in speed and curve, that I knew it wasn’t a plane, it was a meteor, but I never saw one so green. It disappeared before it hit the ground. I was driving, and when I got closer to where it looked like it was, I didn’t see anything on fire or smoking, so I figured it was a meteor.”
Only four people reported a sound associated with the fireball, while some reported seeing flashes as the fireball blazed through the skies.
1 Event 1322-2025 – AMS – March 4, 2025