Florida reporter Jay O’Brien took to Facebook Live Monday night to tell viewers about a senior complex that lost power. His images turned out to be considerably more spectacular than expected. As he strolled the streets, the CBS12 reporter suddenly saw a huge fireball above him and exclaimed, “Oh my god, what’s THAT in the sky? WHOA! OK. Great piece of flash in the sky at that moment. I don’t know if you saw that. Perhaps a piece of space junk burns in orbit? Sometimes they look like this. I’ll ask around and find out what that was. That was astonishing. The reporter then immediately resumed his composure, saying, “Let’s go back to the current story, that’s this apartment complex.” It was later reported that the flash that Floridians saw in the sky was a meteor unusually close to Earth.
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