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The Frenchtown resident and his wife, Maria, were driving to the Clinton park-and-ride lot shortly before 6 a.m. when, after passing the Clinton A&P supermarket, he saw a green-tinged white ball of light burst across the sky in an easterly direction.
The flash, which lasted between four and six seconds, was as bright as a full moon, he said.
"If you were outside, you were going to see this," he said.
Sarabia wasn't alone. Witnesses as far north as New Hampshire and as far south as Delaware said they saw the fireball, a brighter-than-usual meteor, according to logs on American Meteor Society and Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News.
"I didn't see anything falling off of it or smoke," Sarabia said, adding that it was three times larger than the North Star.
It was likely unrelated to the annual Perseid meteor shower, which peaked Aug. 12.
Meanwhile on Saturday, Al Witzgall, vice president of the New Jersey Astronomical Association, will present "Meteorites and You - A Guide to Stones from Space" at the Aldrin Astronomical Center in Lebanon Township.
'New Jersey couple among witnesses who saw fireball as bright as a full moon': does not a credible witness make; because TV ruined EVERYONE from new jersey and automatically you expect a drunk moron chewing gum with fake tan and too much...everything going 'oh like, toooooootally saw it, yeah and frankie tried to punch it'. Don't blame me for stereotyping NJ: Im not a producer of the moronic crap that portrays it as a city of proudly idiotic slap-worthy 'people'... if snookie is in fact a person.