A fireball that streaked across the Denver sky at 11 p.m. Friday prompted dozens of people to call the Cloudbait Observatory in Guffey to report the bright meteor.
“It was not uncommon and moved fairly slow,” said Chris Peterson, a research associate at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
Peterson is part of a team that uses special cameras to track the paths of meteor showers.
Although tonight marks the peak of the April 20-22 annual Lyrid meteor shower, Peterson does not believe the fireball was part of the meteor shower because it traveled in the opposite direction.
People reported the fireball as being green and orange and most of the eyewitnesses were from the Denver area, Peterson said.
Peterson welcomes those who saw the meteor to report it at www.cloudbait.com.
