Footage of a fireball in the sky was captured by a North Carolina man driving down a street Thursday night, ABC News reported. The fiery sight was apparently visible to people in at least six other states.

Dan Perjar, a 24-year-old software developer at North Carolina State University, recorded the meteor on his dash cam while driving on I-440 from Cary toward the Raleigh campus around 10:17 p.m. Thursday. "When it first appeared, it honestly looked like someone had shot some fireworks off in their backyard; it was that stunning," the Raleigh resident told ABC News. "I quickly realized it was much larger and much further away when it exploded and lit up the clouds beneath it.

Perjar, who said he watched a documentary about the Chelyabinsk meteor just days before, knew the fireball was likely a meteor. "It streaked with a definite green and gold color as it broke up in its descent. It seemed to explode multiple times."

Between 10:12 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. ET, people across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, including North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., confirmed more than 95 reports of sighting the fireball, according to the American Meteor Society.

"There was a very bright light at the beginning of the event: looked like lightning, but then I turned and saw the fireball descending and fragmenting," Matthew K. of Chesapeake, Virginia, reported to the meteor society.

Amanda K. of Baily, North Carolina wrote, "It was crazy, I had no idea what I had seen," describing the meteor as a "white ball with slight blue outline with white glowing trail," according to ABC News. Matt S. of Clayton, Delaware, reported that seeing the fireball was "truly an amazing sight. [A] once in a lifetime experience I'll never forget."

Perjar agreed that it was quite the experience: "It's definitely the most interesting thing I've caught on my dash cam yet."