NASA told PEOPLE the meteor was “moving southwest at 30,000 miles per hour” over Georgia before it disintegrated with extreme energyNEED TO KNOWWitnesses across southeastern U.S. states reported seeing a “really scary” fireball moving across the sky on June 26A NASA expert confirmed to PEOPLE that the object was a meteor,

NASA confirmed a meteor entered Earth's atmosphere over Georgia, disintegrating with energy equivalent to 20 tons of TNT.

Remnants of a cosmic 'fireball' object witnessed soaring across Georgia may have broken off and plummeted through the roof of a home south of Atlanta.