NASA: Fireball seen in Colorado sky was in fact a meteor

There was a strange light in western sky this morning. Yep, we've gotten a few calls. From my quick research, it looks like there was indeed a pretty bright fireball right at 6am. It was pretty low on the horizon moving north to northwest. http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2015/638Our all sky camera BARELY caught it as it was mostly behind the trees and almost too low for our camera. See attached image. (In the attached image, Up is North and right is West. So you can barely see the streak through the trees in the top right moving behind our 24" telescope dome (that's the white blob in the top right) Glow at the bottom is the full Moon.
The estimated 3D trajectory computed from the witness reports shows an extremely shallow entry angle.

By Jesse Paul | The Denver Post

PUBLISHED: March 11, 2015 at 8:50 a.m. | UPDATED: April 26, 2016 at 1:57 p.m.

NASA confirmed that a fireball seen rocketing across the sky early Wednesday in Colorado that sparked speculation and dropped jaws across the state was, in fact, a meteor.

“The available eyewitness and video information indicates that the meteor moved from east to west at about 45,000 miles per hour and weighed a few pounds,” said Bill Cooke, lead for the meteoroid environments office at NASA.

Cooke said preliminary estimates are that the meteor weighed 2 to 4 pounds.

“The fireball belongs to a class of meteors called Earthgrazers, which hit the Earth’s atmosphere at a very shallow angle,” he said. “They can travel a considerable distance before getting low enough to completely burn up.”

NASA said eyewitnesses reported the fireball lasted longer than 10 seconds, matching grazer durations.

“The numerous reports are typical of fireballs occurring during morning or evening work commute, and are not indicative of the relative brightness of the meteor,” Cooke said. “Just lots of folks starting their day saw this.”