A brilliant bright light seen streaking in the night sky over the Southwest was most likely a fireball -- a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere, a NASA scientist said.

Residents from Phoenix to Las Vegas to Southern California's coastal areas reported to local authorities and media outlets Wednesday that they saw the light move quickly from west to east at around 7:45 p.m. PDT. Many reported the light as bluish-green and others as yellow and orange. Some captured video of the object.

"We can't say 100 percent," said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program, "but it's almost certain that the object was a fireball" or very bright meteor, "the size of a basketball or baseball that likely disintegrated before it hit the ground."


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It weren't. Try it next time you see a 'falling star'...take your phone out of your pocket, turn it on and set it to 'camera' and record...the 'fireball' will have done 'burned up' before you can. But this, whatever it was, not only allowed them plenty of time to get to filming it, but stayed around for almost 3 minutes for lots of filming time. And even the 'experts' agree that it was *not* an airplane... So...what was it?