[Daryn Kagan, Cnn Anchor:] Experts are still trying to unravel a mystery. A number of people, from Virginia to New York, reported seeing bright lights in the sky and also hearing loud noises. Witnesses say they saw a fireball fall into a cornfield. So what happened? What was it? Robert Lang from our affiliate WGAL takes a look.
[Unidentified Male:] You can't see anything. It's a cornfield.
[Robert Lang, Wgal Reporter:] It looks like any of the other cornfields that dot Route 973 north of Williamsport. But as this home video shows, last night, pieces of a meteorite struck, leaving behind dust and wilted corn. But you wouldn't know today.
[Unidentified Male:] It's really hard to tell what it is.
[Lang:] Today, as firefighters and DEP inspectors look over the land, everything appears to be normal.
[Unidentified Male:] No burn marks, no dust, no evidence. We scanned it with some vapor meteors and the radiation detectors and everything is normal.
[Lang:] One of the amazing things is that one day later, much of the corn in this Lycoming County field has sprung back to life. You have to search very close for damage, this is a burn mark caused by the space debris. [voice-over]: Regardless of what hit this cornfield, this is a night that those who live here won't forget. But still, some aren't surprised.
[Unidentified Male:] I think this is a common occurrence that just happened to happen here. I think many times it happened over the ocean or something and goes unnoticed.
[Jack Benedict, Witness:] I guess with everything else they're putting up in space nowadays, the old satellite, space stations and stuff, you never know what is going to come back down and where it's going to hit.
[Kagan:] That was Robert Lang with our affiliate
[Wgal. Brian Nelson, Cnn Anchor:] And our reporter Ann Kellan is up in Boston right now, and she's been talking to some experts up there, some scientists up in that region, and she joins us now with her take, and the scientists' take, on what that little event yesterday afternoon was. Hello there.
[Ann Kellan, Cnn Science Correspondent:] Hello there. How are you? I talked to some folks at "Sky & Telescope" magazine who are saying that they are a little skeptical that there was actually a touchdown, because there was no evidence on the ground of anything. But they tracked, from eyewitness reports, where it was spotted, and it was spotted, coming in, they think, from the south, in North Carolina, and moved north, where it was spotted in Virginia, Washington, D.C., and then Pennsylvania, where people heard a noise, and that's where they say it probably entered the atmosphere, whatever this object was. But they wonder if pieces of debris may have fallen from the object and my have you saw that corn being burnt a little bit. Maybe that's what caused it. Whether the whole object fell they are a little skeptical, because people further north saw it as well, in Buffalo, Rochester, and as far as Ontario.
[Nelson:] Is there consensus, Ann, on whether this was a piece of a meteor or perhaps something that was manmade, perhaps a piece of an old spacecraft?
[Kellan:] We haven't heard anything from U.S. Space Command, and they're the ones who track this space junk in space. And there are about 9,000 objects up there. It could have fallen from the sky. But we heard nothing from them, and they have made no reports that it was a piece of space junk. Some scientists are wondering if it was a rogue rock, they call it an asteroid which would consist of metallic rock material or whether it's a piece of a comet, which would be more of an icy material. They don't know because there really is nothing to study; there's no evidence of an actual thing falling to earth.
[Nelson:] There's been a whole range of estimations on the size of this thing. Have the scientists you've talked to been able to make some correlation between the bang that people heard, the flash that they saw, and the size that this might have been?
[Kellan:] No, because it was, basically, eyewitness accounts, and I don't think they really can tell by the size. People were saying it was the size of a refrigerator flying, but no, there is nothing that they can ascertain, and they really can't specify what it was. Right now, it's a mystery.
[Nelson:] Stay there Ann.
[Kellan:] OK. We're going to bring in Robert Lang, a reporter from our CNN affiliate WGAL. He's been out in the field, where there is some suspicion that pieces of that rock or whatever it was fell. Robert, are you there? Can you hear us?
[Lang:] Yes, Brian, I can. Good afternoon, from Salidaysburg, Pennsylvania. That's about five miles from where the meteorite hit. As we were out there today, you really can't tell that a meteorite fell. There's really no debris, no dust, and there's not a lot of the damage to the corn crop. The corn, from what we understand, fell forward, as you saw in some of the home video earlier, last night. But that corn was standing tall today. The only damage you could see are small, microscopic burn marks that are in the leaves. You can tell that those are burn marks because of the black rings around it. That's compared to the insect damage which some of corn around here has also been experiencing.
[Nelson:] Robert, let me stop you right there. I'm assuming that those burn marks were not there yesterday, and that's why we went out there?
[Lang:] That's exactly it. Those burn marks were not there yesterday. But those burn marks are small, and you really can't tell whether this has destroyed the corn crop. It appears it really hasn't. The corn continues to grow, and I think some of the corn will be able to be salvaged. I think one of the things that the farmer was worried about and the emergency crews were spectators coming through and trampling through the cornfield, because it's in the cornfield. And they don't want spectators to do more damage than the meteorite did.
[Nelson:] But it's something I don't understand. You've got corn, and you've got evidence of burn, and you can't find any object no residue, no rim of a rock nothing?
[Lang:] That is the mystery, and that's mystery a number of scientists from some local colleges are going to be examining today. A firefighter did tell me corn is a hearty grain, so apparently, it can withstand meteor damage. You learn something new every day, I guess.
[Nelson:] Is there suspicion among authorities out there that this could be a hoax?
[Lang:] No, because they heard the boom. A lot of communities throughout Pennsylvania and throughout the Northeast heard and saw something last night.
[Nelson:] Sure, they heard the boom, but I'm talking about that particular farm field with those burns in the corn?
[Lang:] They're taking it seriously. They are not considering it to be a hoax, but I suppose anything is possible.
[Nelson:] So there's no evidence of anything yet, just a little burn in corn.
[Lang:] That's right.
[Nelson:] Thanks, Robert Lang from CNN affiliate WGAL. Thanks for being with us.
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