FULL STORY: https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/metro-atlanta-georgia-reports-of-fireball-from-sky/85-a77c7c1e-af77-43ae-8533-5a6c0650c03e Reports from people in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Tennessee came in to authorities and across social media Thursday after a bright object could be seen streaking through the sky and appearing to plummet to earth in a fiery descent. A driver in Aiken, South Carolina captured footage of the object on dash camera video while driving on Interstate 20, according to Storyful. It was described by experts from the American Meteor Society as a bolide, a large and rare fireball that creates a sonic boom. "They are moving very fast and when they hit Earth's atmosphere they could be going 50,000 MPH or faster, but they quickly decelerate and by the time they come and, and, you know, like they stop all their cosmic velocity at like 20,000 or 30,000 feet up, and by the time they hit your roof, they're going about the speed of a golf ball or maybe a little bit faster," Mike Hankey, operations manager of the American Meteor Society, told 10TV's sister station, 11Alive.