What was that ball of fire in the sky in southern Virginia?

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- Those in Brunswick County or nearby areas might have seen what looked like a ball of fire sailing through the sky Thursday morning -- but what was it?

The morning of Thursday, June 26, numerous eyewitnesses across southern Virginia and other surrounding states reported a bright light plunging toward the earth at a high rate of speed, according to NASA.

NASA's meteor camera also detected the object, which has been identified as a fireball, or an exceptionally bright meteor.

Its path appears to have begun in northern North Carolina, NASA said. It descended at a steep angle toward the Virginia-North Carolina border, traveling at about 32,000 miles per hour.

A WJBF viewer's dashcam captured the fireball's descent, which he witnessed while on Interstate 20 in South Carolina.

Dashcam footage taken while traveling on I-20 from Columbia to Aiken, S.C. near Wire Road. (Video: Bryan Jennings Updyke)

The meteor only traveled about 40 total miles through the atmosphere before it disintegrated near Roanoke Rapids Lake, just shy of the border.

You can see the fireball's path on the map provided by NASA, shown below. It's represented by the blue arrow.

Trajectory of a June 26 fireball near the Virginia/North Carolina border. (Photo: NASA)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shared an image of the moment the fireball appeared on one of its satellites' geostationary lightning mappers.

Satellite imaging of a June 26 fireball near the Virginia/North Carolina border. (Photo: NOAA)

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