A fireball was seen in one states a little after morning every day . ` ` It was a huge yellow burning tail , '' at least 10 viewer wrote to a meteor tracking group . In Silver Spring , Maryland , another poster to the Meteor Society page wrote that it `` looked like a plane on fire close by . '' Others said it was green , white or blue . Such events are common , but often go unseen , the Meteor Society says .
A fireball was seen in one states a little after morning every day . `` It was a huge yellow burning tail , '' at least 10 viewer wrote to a meteor tracking group . Others said it was green , white or blue . Such events are common , but often go unseen , the Meteor Society says .