A rare daytime fireball bright enough to be seen from orbit may have damaged a house in Henry County, Georgia. The fireball, which was spotted over the southeastern US on June 27, 2025, at 12:25 EDT, was visible as it descended through the atmosphere and flared due to extreme heat friction.
The American Meteor Society received over 160 reports of the fireball, which was detectable by NASA’s GOES-19 Earth observation satellite. Robert Lunsford, a meteor expert, said that daylight fireballs are rare, occurring only about once per month worldwide, and require an object larger than a pea-sized meteor to be visible.
According to NASA, the meteor entered the atmosphere at 30,000 mph (48,000 km/h) above Oxford, Georgia. If fragments of the meteor survived its passage through the atmosphere, they may have caused damage to the roof of a local home.
The hole in the roof, reportedly caused by a fragment of the meteorite, has been shared on social media and sparked speculation about the incident. Meteor expert Lunsford stated that larger meteors are more likely to produce fragments, but confirmed that the photograph of the hole is associated with this fireball.
Source: https://www.space.com/stargazing/rare-daytime-fireball-bright-enough-to-be-seen-from-orbit-may-have-punched-a-hole-in-a-house-in-georgia