Sez it probably never reached the earth’s surface. I saw an east coast fireball as I was coming home about a year ago. I saw it far off in the distance, in the early evening and thought to myself, “That looks like a meteor, but it can’t be.” Then it crossed in front of me, low above the horizon, going west to east and I thought it was a helicopter following Route 2 towards Boston, but when it was to the southeast is brightened up and disappeared. I knew what is was, and thousands of others on the east coast reported it, too.
A few years back, I was looking for Venus as a morning star, just after sunrise, and saw a distinct fireball to the southeast, but heard and saw no other reports. I may have been one of the few people to have seen that one.
A couple years ago, I saw a white fireball (tear drop shape) larger than a basketball land in the river a 100 feet from me. I called a star gazer friend, looked on line and think I asked the FR state board but couldn’t get any confirmation what it might have been.