Skywatchers and eyewitnesses have been given the biggest surprise early morning of February 6, when a fireball of a bright-green meteorite lights up the Milwaukee sky. The space rock while traveling very fast had exploded at approximately 100 miles north of Chicago and 10-20 miles up north of Milwaukee. Upon its explosion the space rock released a great amount energy equivalent to 10 tons of TNT.

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In a report by Space, while the dazzling light was very visible in the Milwaukee and Chicago area, this was also witnessed by people in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, New York, Kentucky and in Ontario, Canada. When the fireball disintegrated above, broken pieces and splinters were scattered in Lake Michigan.

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Eyewitnesses who have caught the meteorite on camera have declared that the space rock had appeared about 62 miles in the sky of West Bend, Wisconsin. At the speed of an estimated 38,000 miles per hour, the meteorite move northeast to Milwaukee. While it travels at a very fast speed, the meteorite created a sonic boom, which is actually a result of the fast speed, faster that sound waves, according to Livescience.

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The Infrasound Station of Manitoba, Canada was able to record the sonic boom about 600 miles away. Reports have revealed that the space rock had been an asteroid at about 272 kilos with a diameter of .6 meters. Those broken pieces that hits the ground are called meteorites. With this, research stations in both the U.S. and Canada will have the opportunity to conduct further studies on the falling rock.