Did you see it? Just before 7 o'clock this morning, there was a bright flash in the sky. North Texas callers to the KRLD Listener Line described it as a "fire ball" with a long greenish-blue tail. People as far south as Houston and as far East as Louisiana saw it as well. Bill Cook, the lead for NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, says that their cameras in New Mexico picked up the flash of light at 6:43 am. "That's several hundred kilometers away," says Cook. " You normally don't see a meteor that far away."
He does believe that it was a meteor. "It looks like what you saw was a bright meteor, also called a fire ball." Cook says that it appears that the meteor entered the earth's atmosphere somewhere between Dallas and Houston. He says that they are trying to track where it landed. "This was probably about the size of a basketball," says Cook. "There's no way that it would be taking out a town or anything like that. This thing was pretty small."
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Comment: That's a pretty big basketball to be seen over that large of an area (250 miles between Dallas and Houston) - and it was reported being seen much farther away than Houston:
NASA said Friday afternoon the meteor is likely a fragment from an asteroid belt and not associated with the Geminid meteor shower
Friday morning mysterious bright flash in sky reported across Texas - fireball not associated with the Geminids
American Meteor Society receives 30 reports of a bright fireball that occurred near 06:45 CST on Friday December 7, 2012 - Texas