National Weather Service meteorologists confirmed that an orange fireball that shot through the Saturday night sky was a meteor.

The meteor, which also reportedly was seen in El Paso and across much of the southwestern United States, did not make it to the surface, said Marvin Percha, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service's office in Phoenix.

"Usually, they burn up 50, 100 miles above the surface way up in the atmosphere," he said Sunday. "It doesn't matter where in the world it is, when these hit the earth's atmosphere they usually burn up rather quickly."







Percha said meteors are fairly common, and typically look like the size of peanuts or pebbles.

Roy Finegan said he was shaking even 15 minutes after seeing what the National Weather Service is calling a meteor Saturday night.

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