If you were up around 6:45 a.m. you may have caught a glimpse of what seemed to be a ball of fire soaring through the sky. Most Wisconsin residents who saw the fireball were located in the southeast and northeast parts of the state. Witnesses said the fireball lit up the sky for about 1-7 seconds. Scientists say that the mysterious fireball was likely a meteoroid given that it was traveling southeast in direction. The meteoroid gathered a lot of attention because it was mainly overpopulated areas such as Chicago, Milwaukee, and the Fox Cities. The closest local sighting came around the Luxemburg area and several sightings in the Green Bay/Bellevue area. Scientists also say that meteoroids only fly over land about 25% of the time, and the rest of the time usually occur over bodies of water such as oceans, so anyone that saw the fireball should consider themselves lucky.

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