'So Awesome': Perry Hall Residents See Meteor Show

PERRY HALL, MD — Many Maryland residents saw what appeared to be a meteor Tuesday night bursting into a fireball. Perry Hall residents were among them.

The American Meteor Society said it received 360 reports about a meteor/fireball seen over Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, Delaware, Maine, New Jersey, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Vermont and West Virginia.

"Don't worry, if you live along the East Coast and saw a bright blue/green light streaking across the sky last night; you're not crazy," the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported on Wednesday, April 17. Its satellite mapping tool picked up the meteor too, officials said.

A Perry Hall woman reported that she saw a multicolor light descend from the left to the right across the sky at 11:40 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16. She described it as a light blue/green color.

The many Maryland meteor sightings logged by the American Meteor Society ranged from Silver Spring to Easton.

"My girls and I saw this last night...so awesome!!" one Perry Hall resident posted on the Perry Hall Patch Facebook page, commenting on an article about the meteor show.

Another said she saw it off MD 702 at Homberg Avenue in Essex.

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Tuesday's ball of light fell during the first night of the Lyrid meteor showers, which streak across the sky from April 16 to April 25 and produce around 20 shooting stars an hour. The best time to see the Lyrids is expected to be in the early evening hours before midnight.

Skywatchers can expect the Lyrids to peak overnight from Monday, April 22, to Tuesday, April 23.

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The full "pink moon" is set to reach its peak at 7:19 a.m. on Friday, April 19, and will be bright, which could be problematic for meteor lovers. The moon will not actually be pink; it is named for the phlox, a perennial plant that blooms this month, providing a bright pink ground cover.

With reporting from Patch editors Beth Dalbey, Deb Belt and Tom Davis.