It happened in the Killeen area, and video from Christopher Cato shows the burst of blue light caught on his dash camera as it traveled through the atmosphere.
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Others in Central Texas said they heard a loud boom.
One woman in Hempstead told sister station ABC13 meteorologist Travis Herzog she spotted the blue flash, which bloomed into a turquoise jewel tone as it raced across the night sky.
Viewer Mary Ann Miron reported that she saw something unusual explode in the sky around 9:30 p.m. west of Highway 6 on FM 1736.
"A giant ball like a meteorite changed the rainbow spectrum of colors until it turned into a beautiful turquoise," Miron said. "I've seen shooting stars, but this was huge and colorful."
NASA defines a meteor as a bit of rock that breaks off from an asteroid orbiting the sun. It burns when it enters Earth's atmosphere.
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If part of the rock survives the trip through the atmosphere and hits the earth's surface, it becomes a meteorite.
The Leonid meteor shower happened this weekend, but Herzog said there's no way to know if this particular meteor was part of that.
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