16-foot meteor illuminates Florida, Georgia and Bahamas night sky

On a Monday night in April, the skies above Florida, Georgia, and the Bahamas briefly surrendered their darkness to a 16-foot meteor burning through the atmosphere — a reminder that the cosmos occasionally makes itself impossible to ignore. The National Weather Service confirmed what thousands of witnesses already sensed: something ancient and indifferent had passed through, leaving light in its wake. Though the timing invited speculation about a nearby asteroid, astronomers determined the fireball was its own story entirely — a solitary traveler, unconnected to anything else, simply arriving