See Video: Shooting Star In Elmhurst

Elmhurst IL

16 November, 2021

11:42 AM

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ELMHURST, IL — You were probably sleeping at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday. But an Elmhurst police officer on patrol in the 400 block of North York Street viewed "a beautiful shooting star," the police department announced on Facebook. The shooting star was visible looking toward the western sky, police said. "Thinking quickly, our officer activated their in-car camera system to record what just occurred, allowing us to be able to share the experience with you," the police said on Facebook. According to NASA, when meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere at high speeds and burn up, the fireballs, or "shooting stars," are called meteors