When Cincinnati resident Steve Hart looked back at footage from his recently installed surveillance camera, he spotted something he wished he'd seen in person.

A large meteor flashed across the sky Thursday night, and residents from at least nine states, including Ohio, , Huffington Post reported. The fireball flashed across the sky at 10:47 p.m. EST, according to the footage.

Steve Hart captured this image of the meteor on his security camera.

(Screenshot via WCPO-TV video)

As of Monday morning, 78 people to the American Meteor Society. It was seen by residents as far south as Tennessee, as far west as Missouri and all the way north to Michigan, according to their website.

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"I installed these security cameras in August, and ," Hart said via Facebook. "This camera records movement and stores it up to six days, and when I saw this, I pulled it off of the DVR and saved it to my computer."

Two meteor showers have been in progress this month– the Taurid and Leonid– and it's possible that this fireball may have come from either. Drew Foster, a spokesperson from the University of Louisville's Rauch Planetarium, told WLKY.com that in the last two weeks.

"It's been a busy time the last couple of days, unusually busy," Foster told WLKY.com. He estimated the meteor to be as big as a baseball or softball, while many of the fireballs we see are only about the size of a pea or marble.

Fireballs the size of the one that was spotted Thursday night typically make a sonic boom, and several people who observed the event , WLWT.com reported.

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