A Mitchell police dispatch log that described a "strange sighting near Corsica" shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday was one of many such meteor sightings, said Mike Buss, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls.

A Mitchell police dispatch log that described a "strange sighting near Corsica" shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday was one of many such meteor sightings, said Mike Buss, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls.

Buss said he began receiving reports shortly after 9:30 p.m. of a meteor, which streaked across the sky and gave a bright burst of light. The event had many reported sightings, he said.

"It was described as a bright flash with a greenish blue tail and it was pretty luminous - I mean, you could see your shadow on the ground," Buss said.

The meteor is believed to be from remnants of the Perseid meteor shower, which is visible each August.

National Weather Service notes, but doesn't collect, data on meteor sightings, Buss said.

Charles Mix County jailer Ryan Paulson said he saw the meteor Tuesday as he was driving near the Missouri River in northern Charles Mix County.

"It was headed from east to west over Gregory County until it blew up," he said. "It was just streaming across the sky until it blew up and it lit up the whole sky like a lightning bolt."

The American Meteor Society featured what appears to be the same meteor /fireball on its website www.amsmeteors.org. The site had meteor /fireball sightings in North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska and southern Manitoba, Canada, within the same time frame on Tuesday.