The National Weather Service confirmed a possible meteor sighting over Texas Wednesday night.
MISSION, Texas
– A flash of light and loud boom reported in the skies near McAllen on Wednesday night is thought to be a meteor. Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra said he was told by “federal partners that Houston Air Traffic Control received reports from two aircrafts that they saw a meteorite west of McAllen. Where the exact point of impact is unknown.”The National Weather Service also confirmed a possible meteor sighting.
“One of the satellite tools we use is the Geostationary Lightning Mapper & it measures lightning as observed from space. GLM detected a signal at 523 PM with no storms around. No official confirmation yet,” NWS Brownsville said in a Information from the NWS shows the signal from the lightning mapper appeared around 5:23 p.m. Wednesday afternoon.that the station started receiving calls just before 6 p.m. from hundreds of citizens who “heard the earth shake.”
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