No picture sadly but it was orange with a long tail and very bright.

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At 3AM, driving East on i540 in North Carolina.

Not sure if this is the right place for this - mods please advise if not. Last night, my family had a night out on our property, with a small campfire, some hotdogs, smores, etc. We were watching the sky for shooting stars since this was supposed to still be "peak" for the Perseids. We saw a few of the traditional kind, short-lived blazes across the sky. However, there was one event that was exceptional (to us). The Perseids, by my research, should be coming from the north. However we had a stream of "something" coming from the south-west. These appeared to be much higher in the sky than the shooting stars we were seeing from the north. I should state we are in eastern Virginia.

These were long-lived "lights" perhaps the size of bright stars, maybe slightly larger if not as bright, moving much slower than a shooting star would, perhaps a fast airplane. By long lived, I mean a single object was visible for 7-10 seconds or so. There were 50-200 of them. We didn't count, but it was a tremendous amount. Many were spaced fairly evenly - but not all, and they all appeared to be pretty much in a straight line across the sky. Some burned out early, others traversed almost the entire viewable sky. My thoughts were this was some space rock that collided with another and we're seeing the remnants perhaps traversing through the upper atmosphere. I thought it odd that they all followed the "exact" same path though, and no scatter at all, like a stream of bullets from a semi-automatic gun in a 2d video game.

I really thought I would see some mention of this in the local news, but I can't find anything. What might this have been?

The Tunguska comet/meteor in 1908 created easily enough atmospheric particles to turn night into day over much of Europe. People could read easily newspapers at midnight.

But Chelyabinsk did not do that, AFAIK. I haven’t been able to find anything obvious on Google or Wikipedia about atmospheric glow at evening or unusual brightness at night following the Chelyabinsk event.

Why were the atmospheric effects so different?

Or did Chelyabinsk indeed cause nocturnal lighting, but it was only local in Russia and no one else reported it?

Anyone in Washington see a meteor just now. I'm in Lynnwood, and saw a green/blue streak with a smoke trail fall from the sky

I’m a truck driver and I was driving through the middle of nowhere on I-84, maybe about 120 miles south of Twin Falls, Idaho. I saw a bright green fireball shoot through the sky then break apart in a shower of sparks. Looked exactly as if someone shot a green Roman candle toward the earth out of a helicopter. Does this sound like something any of you have observed? Thanks!

ETA: it was about 4:30am Central time