If it seems like there's a surge in meteors sightings across the US, there is. Data from the American Meteor Society explains.

Between February and April it’s fireball season, a period when our planet appears to be traveling across a slightly denser debris field, leading to extremely bright meteors burning through the sky.

A series of fireballs — very bright meteors — were spotted across North America from March 17-23, 2026. People in Ohio reported one on March 17. The next sightings were in California on March 19, ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — What may seem like an unusually large number of meteor sightings and fireballs have been reported across the United States over the last few days. On March 17, a seven-ton meteor flew ...

It may seem like there has been an unusually high number of meteors this year, including several visible over Nevada and California. The American Meteor Society says there was a notable increase in ...

Here’s an excellent reason to keep looking up, thanks to the American Meteor Society: not just great but greater balls of fire overhead in recent months. While it’s nothing to worry about, according ...

The fireball that crossed the skies on the East Coast on Tuesday afternoon was caused by a meteor, NASA says. The celestial event took place at 2:34 p.m., with the meteor traveling 117 miles southwest ...