WATCH: ‘Fireball’ Streaks Through Sky in Stunning Sight, Officials Believe It May Have Hit House

A fiery meteor blazed through the skies of Georgia on Thursday afternoon, captured on dashcams across the Southeast, startling residents and igniting both curiosity and awe.

The fireball was first detected 48 miles above Oxford, Georgia, also visible from South Carolina, before it disintegrated midair.

A NASA spokesperson said the asteroidal fragment, roughly a metre wide and weighing over a ton, “may have caused windows to vibrate or even crack” as its sonic boom rippled across the region.

The agency confirmed to Fox5 Atlanta that the object was traveling at a stunning 30,000 mph with the explosive force of 20 tons of TNT and noted it was a bolide, a large, bright meteor.

Its violent entry even triggered lightning sensors aboard NOAA weather satellites.

As the viral clips of the object spread online, one Henry County resident claimed a fragment of the rock tore through his roof and ceiling, and cracked the laminate flooring.

“Although I can’t confirm this is from a meteor, there is unusual damage to the home,” the county’s Emergency Management Agency director told Fox5.

Mike Hankey of the American Meteor Society told CNN: “A very small percentage of meteors are actually bolide, but it’s a type of meteor that’s large enough that it will break apart and blow up in the sky, and then fragments from it oftentimes will fall to the Earth. And this is one of those times.”

He continued: “It was a little piece of an asteroid that, you know, left the asteroid belt either through some push from Jupiter or maybe another asteroid bumped into it. But, you know, journeyed towards Earth collided with us. And we see this light in the sky whenever anything enters the atmosphere, because there’s tons of friction, the objects moving very fast.”

Watch above via CNN.