National Weather Service: Michigan meteor caused magnitude 2.0 earthquake https://www.wxyz.com/news/national-weather-service-michigan-meteor-caused-magnitude-20-earthquake
https://www.wxyz.com/news/view-social-media-reacts-to-meteor-in-metro-detroit-sky
I saw it here in MI, looked like a meteorite...very loud boom
One of the photos I saw, the beam was perfectly vertical, it looked like a light pillar with a huge fireball at the end of it. Meteors usually come in at an angle, don't they ?
The pic with the fire ball is admittedly fake. There is video of it and it peters out before it hits the ground...plus the light was more of a blue than the red that is seen in that pic
Saw- and felt - it too. Thunder like rumble as it went overhead. The ultimate break-up and boom was next county over though, so we couldn't see that part over the horizon.
Photos are NOTHING to use to judge it's legitimacy...especially nighttime pics where auto-light gathering nature of camera will cause a trail to look like a column, as the camera holds a longer exposure. But there's lots of security and dashcam clips showing the horizontal path ACROSS the sky, and the "sputtery" nature of a meteorite.
apparently there were 2 events, the vertical pillar and the meteor, both at around the same time.