WSB-TV's chief meteorologist Glenn Burns said some people saw the fireball and heard booms over north Georgia around 9:30 p.m.

NASA believes it was space junk or a meteor that shot across the sky.

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Former Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman talks to her daughter, Wandrea ArShaye "Shaye" Moss, a former Georgia election worker, after she testified before the U.S. House Select Committee at its fourth hearing on its Jan. 6 investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)

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