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article_snippet: But NASA has now confirmed the unusual sight was just a meteor.
article_snippet: Bill Cooke, lead for the meteoroid environments office at NASA, said that just a meteor moved from east to west around 45,000 miles per hour.
article_snippet: NASA has now confirmed the unusual sight was just a meteor.
article_snippet: Bill Cooke, lead for the meteoroid environments office at NASA, said that the meteor moved from east to west around 45,000 miles per hour .
article_snippet: The fireball belongs to a class of meteors called Earthgrazers, which hit the Earth's atmosphere at a very shallow angle,' Bill Cooke told the Denver Post.
article_snippet: The American Meteor Society wrote on Facebook that 150 witnesses had filed sightings spanning from southern Wyoming and northern Colorado.
article_snippet: The American Meteor Society added on The American Meteor Society website: 'This is an atypical meteor event because most fireball meteors last only three to five seconds.'
article_snippet: The American Meteor Society said The American Meteor Society did not know whether The American Meteor Society was a fireball meteor or space trash.
highlights_snippet: But glow came from meteor hitting the Earth's atmosphere, NASA said .