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Andrew Adams ReportingWas it a bird? Was it a plane? Something in the skies spooked the locals on Saturday morning.
Thomas Walker was in Draper. "To me it looked like it was flying almost straight south The trajectory almost looked like it was going into the mountain."
So for a minute there you're thinking, "Oh, there goes Suncrest."
Thomas Walker: "Yeah."
NASA Ambassador Patrick Wiggins says if the meteorite hit that close to home you'd hear the sonic boom.
Patrick Wiggins: "These things are a lot farther away than most people think. The thing could be two or three states away."
He says most shooting stars are about the size of a grain of sand. This might have been the size of a human head.
