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First responders in multiple southeast U.S. states are searching for the crash site of a fiery object that was seen barreling toward the ground Thursday afternoon.

Videos of a fireball streaking through the sky were posted online from people in North Carolina and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. The American Meteor Society, which tracks reports of fireball sightings, logged multiple calls from those states on Thursday as well.

Fox Carolina reported the Anderson County Fire Dispatch in South Carolina confirmed it was searching for the crash site upstate Thursday. A video circulating online from someone in the state showed what appeared to be a streaking ball of fire as it raced towards the ground, disappearing behind a treeline.

The National Weather Service in Charleston posted on social media that satellite-based lightning detection showed “a streak within cloud free sky” near Gasburg, Virginia, which is along the border with North Carolina near Lake Gaston. NWS said it was detected between 11:51 a.m. and 11:56 a.m. Many have taken to social media to guess what the object may have been.

A common guess has been it was a meteor. In Georgia, 11 Alive said Henry County Emergency Management reported a piece of meteorite fell through someone’s roof, creating a hole about an inch in diameter.

Mike Hankey, the operations manager at the American Meteor Society, said in an interview with Axios it may have been a “daytime fireball” from a meteor passing over the region. That fireball was also likely responsible for the sonic boom heard in the Atlanta area, he said. “This is usually indicative of a meteorite dropping a fireball, but not always,” Hankey said in the interview.

Late last night, residents across Georgia, Alabama, across North Carolina, South Carolina, Atlanta, Tennessee, and parts of Florida witnessed a fiery streak tearing through the sky — followed by what some described as a “ground-shaking boom”. But less than an hour later, the area where the object allegedly crashed was sealed off by unmarked black SUVs and military-style personnel.

Official statements quickly labeled it a “meteorite event,” but eyewitnesses aren’t buying it.

“It wasn’t natural,” said Patricia Monroe, a retired Air Force radar tech. “I know the difference between a meteor and something controlled. That thing changed direction mid-flight.”

Within hours, videos began disappearing from social media, and locals reported being told to “stay indoors” and avoid recording.

“There was a red-orange glow coming from the woods,” said James Travis, a farmer near the crash site. “Then nothing. No fire trucks, no cleanup. Just silence.”

Independent researchers are now pointing to flight path anomalies and blackout zones registered around the same time as the sighting. Some are even drawing comparisons to prior alleged cover-ups like Roswell and the Kecksburg incident.

So what really fell from the sky? And why is no one allowed to talk about it?

As more footage leaks and pressure mounts on authorities to come clean, one thing’s certain: something crashed — and it wasn’t just space rock.