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Jul 2, 2008 4:00 pm US/Central

Mysterious Fireball In Sky Alarms Californians

Witnesses Flood 911 With Phone Calls After Unexplained Incident

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (CBS) ― A mysterious fireball lit up the sky above California's San Bernardino County  on Tuesday morning.

Tom Barnes, a county fire dispatch supervisor, says people from the Nevada state line to Temecula reported seeing a bright streak falling near the San Bernardino Mountains.

Some witnesses say the streak was blue, orange and white.

No landing site was found.

"It certainly has the classic appearance of a meteor, that is a piece of debris from interplanetary space," Griffith Observatory director Dr. Ed Krupp told CBS station KCBS-TV.

"Whenever people see a bright meteor and their eyes are attracted to it, they are certain it came down just over the hill," he said. "It really is a great deal away."

Krupp noted cases where there were widespread reports of a sighting during the day were rare.

Officials from Vandenberg Air Force Base and Edwards Air Force Base say the streak may have been a meteorite that burned up in the atmosphere.

Investigators are still looking into the incident.

(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)

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