The skies above New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio were recently illuminated by a 500 pound fireball meteor going 45,000 miles per hour. It was recorded by NASA Meteor Watch cameras.

The NASA Meteor watch wrote on Facebook that the dense space rock was only around 2 feet in diameter and flared brighter than the moon. Around 96 reports of sightings of the meteor from eyewitnesses were received by the American Meteor Society.

The burning space rock which lighted up the sky was also captured by a security camera in Robinson, Pennsylvania. The video has been uploaded on YouTube. According to NASA, the event took place at about 4:50 a.m.

NASA Meteor Watch had released an animation which featured the orbit of fireball and its perspective as it approached our planet. The agency informed that the celestial visitor came "might long way" from an asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter.

Fragments called meteorites could be found on ground near Kittanin, Pennsylvania. This is where the cameras lost track of the fireball, according to the NASA Meteor Watch.