Large meteor lights up the Midwest

A police car dashcam video captured a meteor streaking through the sky in Lisle earlier this morning.

While Lisle police officer Jim Dexter was on patrol at 1:25 a.m. he noticed a meteor in the sky and realized he was lucky enough to have the dashboard camera on his patrol car record the sighting.

“In this profession, we see so many things that the public doesn’t get too see. Sometimes that’s good, sometimes that’s bad. I’m just glad that in this instance I was able to capture this for everyone to see,” Dexter said in a statement.

The National Weather Service in Chicago tweeted Dexter’s video of the meteor, which appeared to be a bright flash of green and blue light.

Prior to the video’s release, the weather service tweeted that it had received numerous reports about a meteor across the Midwest and asked its followers if anyone had videos or pictures of it. Multiple people tweeted the weather service back and said there were meteor spottings in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin.

A Morton Grove police dashcam also caught a glimpse of the breathtaking meteor, which the weather service shared on Twitter.