'Hell of a fright': Fireball seen streaking across North Island skies

<p>A fireball was seen streaking across the lower North Island sky last night, with some reporting they heard a "huge boom". </p> <p>Talula Hodder captured the fireball on her dashcam as she was driving home from Palmerston North to Levin. </p> <p>"It was a fully clear night otherwise, so I was like, wait, what was that? Then the next second, this massive flaming fireball thing came tearing across the sky," she told 1News. </p> <p>"I was like, 'holy s***'... I was quite freaked out." </p> <p>Hodder said the glow "just flooded the sky" and described a "slight sizzling sound" and a "boom" to go with it. </p> <p>Fireballs Aotearoa, the public face of a citizen camera network monitoring meteors, said it received multiple reports of a "bright fireball meteor" over the lower North Island at around 10.26pm.