(April 15) -- Video taken by an Iowa sheriff's cruiser shows it clearly: A fireball believed to have been a large meteor streaked across the Midwestern sky, prompting hundreds of calls to the National Weather Service from stargazers in at least four states.
Images captured by a webcam at the
University of Wisconsin at Madison show what appears to be a meteor illuminating the northern sky and shooting eastward around 10 p.m. CDT Wednesday.
There has been no official determination of what caused the fireball. In a statement on its Web site,
the weather service said "a fireball or very bright meteor was observed streaking across the sky" in Northern Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Southern Wisconsin
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