ORLANDO, Fla. – This week, residents across the Sunshine State reported seeing a large, bluish-green object speeding across the sky over Florida.
That’s according to the American Meteor Society (AMS), which picked up over 80 reports on Monday night.
These reports ranged from places like Pensacola all the way down to Hollywood, flooding in between 9 - 10 p.m.
However, they nearly all claimed to have seen a blue- or green-colored object racing overhead.
“The brightest thing in the sky I’ve ever seen, with a bright green tail, and it looked so close to the ground!” one person wrote. “Unfortunately, I was driving, so I had to return my eyes to the road after only a second, but it seemed gone by that time anyway. It disappeared into the treeline.”
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According to the AMS, February is the start of evening fireball season, which is when an abundance of “fireballs” — extraordinarily bright meteors — tend to pop up.
However, the National Weather Service in Tallahassee reports that it may have been a bolide meteor: a type of fireball that explodes after entering Earth’s atmosphere.
It's a bird, it's a plane… it's a bolide meteor! A bolide is a large, bright meteor that explodes in the atmosphere. Around 11:50 pm ET last night, one streaked across the sky and exploded high above the Gulf—no harm reported. GLM even picked up the energy signal! #FLwx pic.twitter.com/4k2zWitVPo
— NWS Tallahassee (@NWSTallahassee) February 4, 2026
But what about the odd color?
The AMS reports that fireballs can come in different hues, usually depending on what element they’re made out of. For example, sodium can produce a bright yellow color.
Green can indicate the presence of nickel, and magnesium can show up as blue-white.
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“Among fainter objects, it seems to be reported that slow meteors are red or orange, while fast meteors frequently have a blue color,” the AMS states. “But for fireballs, the situation seems more complex than that.”
If you think that you’ve come across a fireball while out and about, the AMS urges you to report it by clicking here.
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