An unusually bright meteor shot across the Texas sky Saturday night, wowing people across the U.S. Southwest.

The American Meteor Society received more than 250 reportsof “an extremely bright green light that rivaled the brightness of the sun.”The organization believes the meteor was at least 4-feet wide and weighed 4,000 pounds.

“This event was so bright that it was picked up on a NASA meteor camera in the mountains of New Mexico over 500 miles away,” Dr. Bill Cooke with NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office said during a conference, CNN.com reports.

Guy Parker captured the shooting star on his car’s dash camwhile he was driving in San Antonio, ksat.com reports.His car was heading west at the time.

Early November brings a series of what earthsky.org calls “relatively minor” meteor showers: the South Taurids, the North Taurids and the Andromedids. The space-watching website said it's too early to tell if the meteor was associated with any of the showers.

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