Caught on camera: Meteor soars through New Mexico Copyright by KRQE - All rights reserved Video

ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) - Around 5 a.m Thursday, a huge fireball shot through the sky, visible from Arizona all the way to here in New Mexico.

It's a sight that caught a lot of people waiting for the sunrise off guard.

"I saw was a bright light, I turn around and I see another bright light and then I just see it go down," said Tony Rodriguez, who saw the light in Alamogordo.

Rodriguez was working in the morning when he saw the bright flash of light.

Making sure his eyes weren't playing tricks on him, he checked this video on his work's security camera.

"You just don't know what to expect. You kind of think all kinds of silly things," said Rodriguez.

Astronomers believe the fiery flash was most likely a meteor hurtling through the sky.

Some of the flashes were so bright they lit up the sky like midday.

Astronomer Thomas Ashcraft caught the meteor on camera. "It was super bright so this size of fireball is fairly uncommon," he said.

Most sightings of the meteor have come from Arizona, primarily around Phoenix.

Ashcraft says there have been more than 200 reports from as far away as California.

Astronomers are still working on verifying that it was a meteor, and where it came down.

"Where it landed, who knows, and if it did land, so we are just waiting for more analysis right now," said Ashcraft.

Along with that bright flash of light, some say they also heard a loud boom and saw trails of smoke. Even people in Utah and Colorado reported seeing the huge fireball.