GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC) – Social media in West Michigan and around the midwest is lighting up, and it’s not over the Super Bowl.
A meteor lit up the skies for a brief few seconds around 2:30 a.m.in the town of Lisle, Illinois The American Meteor Society says it received more than 100 reports about the fireball from Michigan to Ohio.
In West Michigan, hundreds have said they saw it over Lake Michigan. Police dash cam video shows a bright, green light flashing across the sky. The society says the green color means the material flying through the air off the meteor is nickel.
The National Weather Service in Chicago has posted several videos of the meteor on Twitter.
