SOUTH BEND — A huge fireball traveling across the South Bend skies before dawn Thursday also was seen in Michigan, Ohio and Canada, according to other news accounts.

A Tribune reporter watched the fireball — confirmed by some Canadian astronomers as a meteor — as it streaked across the sky from north to south before the sun came up in the eastern sky.

The meteor was unusually bright and long-lived, with a green-tinted fireball and glowing arc trailing behind it.

South Bend and St. Joseph County 911 dispatchers said they did not receive any calls about the fireball.

But in Michigan, local media said Ypsilanti school bus drivers called news outlets to report what they'd seen.

And in Ohio, Cleveland residents e-mailed WEWS-TV, some saying they'd never seen anything like it before.

The ABC affiliate said contacts to their e-mail link reported seeing the "mysterious light" across the greater Cleveland area, south to Columbus and west into Indiana and southern Michigan.

"Whatever it was, it was a spectacular sight to see," one viewer wrote.

"It was so impressive that seeing it felt somewhat surreal," added another.

And indeed, it was breathtaking.

The mystery, however, appears solved by The University of Western Ontario.

According to the Chatham Daily News, the university's physics and astronomy department checked their systems after two women taking their morning walk reported seeing the fireball in Chatham, a Canadian town about 50 miles northeast of Detroit.

University staff told the Daily News the light was a meteor seen across their entire network, which their Western Meteor Physics Group bases in London, Ontario, and uses for monitoring.