"I was driving Route 206 North just south of the Somerville Circle just before 9 p.m., and I saw something streak across the sky, with a pretty bright ball with a long tail. Then it just went dark," Lorna Morehead of Bridgewater told New Jersey 101.5.
Reports to the meteor reporting website amsmeteors.org came from New Jersey and neighboring Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New York. In New Jersey, reports came from Keyport, Greenwich, Scotch Plains, Montclair, Lebanon, Manasquan, Rockaway, Franklin Lakes, and Springfield Township in Union County.
"It was beautiful," Roseland wrote of seeing the meteor over Keyport.
"Very bright and beautiful," Shari G. wrote from Springfield Township.
"Wow this was amazing ... loved the flash," Anuraj wrote from Montclair.
"It was probably the most beautiful natural phenomenon I'll ever witness, if it was really natural," Veronica in Franklin Lakes wrote.
"It was much larger than a shooting star or any stars in the sky. Maybe the size of a small plane," Matt S. observed from just over the Delaware River in Yardley, Pennsylvania.
New Jersey 101.5 Chief Meteorologist Dan Zarrow said the meteor was likely part of the Lyrid meteor shower.
"The Lyrid will actually peak from dusk Saturday through dawn Sunday. With partly cloudy to mostly clear skies in the forecast, viewing conditions here in New Jersey should be very good," Zarrow said.
Anyone else seen the big meteor that came over NYC just before 9pm last night? If it landed I would guess in Northern NJ a few miles out of the city. Was pretty big and bright af.
— ChrisW (@StrypePhotos) April 20, 2018
I just saw a meteor flying through the night sky heading North West. Looks like people in NYC and NJ saw it too! #meteor
— Emma Amelia (@_emmaamelia) April 20, 2018
Whoa...#meteor just crossed Manhattan vaguely over Chelsea heading Northwest towards NJ. Weird, had two points of light.
— e.p.c. (@epc) April 20, 2018
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