Witnesses spotted it from Oklahoma City to south of Waco

At about 8 p.m. on Wednesday night, a meteor zipped across the sky over Dallas, then burst into a streaking flame before burning out.

WFAA received more than 200 reports, and a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman confirmed that it was likely a meteor or meteorite. Sightings extended from as far north as Oklahoma City to south of Waco. Some heard a boom. On its Wednesday night broadcast, CBS 11 described it as an "electrophonic" meteor -- one that can be heard as it burns.

Comments on WFAA's Facebook page came from The Colony, Rockwall, and beyond, each describing it slightly differently: as a "large blue and green ball with a orange tail," as "bright green," and as "real bright blue with a long fire trail behind it."

I actually saw it as it burned out. In what was undoubtedly an optical illusion, it looked like it was coming from south of downtown Dallas and moving in a northeast direction, as if headed for White Rock Lake. I happened to be watching a performance online by Bjork from Tuesday night's The Colbert Report. She sang "Cosmogony," a song from her new album Biophilia and I was trying to figure out the lyrics.

The song, coincidentally -- or not?! -- is about the creation of the universe:
"Heaven, heaven's bodies / World around me make me wonder / And they say back then our universe wasn't even there / Until a sudden bang and then there was light, was sound, was matter / And it all became the world we know."
The view from my window looks towards Baylor Hospital, and it's not-uncommon to see helicopters hovering, then landing on Baylor's helipad. So, initially the gold streak in the sky appeared to be just another helicopter about to land. It looked surprisingly close. But its path had an unfamiliar, angular slant, and that's what caught my eye. Then it began to burn out, its head growing larger, with a long tail. All of a sudden the light extinguished, and then a minute or two later, a boom -- as if it had crashed and landed somewhere. The whole thing lasted all of 15 seconds.