Because of the early morning hours, very few in Missouri saw it, but a backyard video captured the moment a huge meteor burnt up over the state early Saturday morning.
You will sometimes see a meteor burn up in the atmosphere over Illinois and Iowa, but you'll rarely see them during the daytime which is exactly what happened early Friday morning.
This was one of the most widely-viewed fireballs of the year so far. Hundreds saw a meteor explode over Illinois and many captured videos of the event that briefly turned night into day over the Land of Lincoln.
When this Missouri traffic camera was originally put in place, it had one job - to monitor traffic over a highway. It accidentally just did another job and that's capturing video of a meteor exploding in the sky over the roadway.
I am glad there are much smarter people than me in the world. That's because there was a strange streak that appeared over Missouri during the overnight hours into early Tuesday morning and there are theories from the educated about what took place.