CLEVELAND -- Did you see it?

Dozens of people called and e-mailed NewsChannel5 to say that they saw a fireball flying over northeast Ohio at about 8 p.m. Wednesday.

"We were sitting here eating dinner and I looked out the window and there was a big ball of light, many colors, and it was descending over the lake," David Schabel, of Rocky River, said.

So what was the ball of fire?

Meteorologist Brad Sussman said it was most likely a meteor. NORAD said it definitely was not a man-made object.

"What people actually most likely saw was a meteor, a shooting star, as most people would call it in the atmosphere. And when it's being observed at that point it is approxiametely 70 to 60 miles up above the earth's surface," Joseph DeRocher from the National History Museum said.

Sussman said it's unusual to see something so bright so early in the evening. Generally, meteors are visible after midnight, and a lot of people say it appeared the object fell into the lake.

He said that's not likely due to the fact it was so high in the atmosphere. It probably landed in northern Canada or possibly the Arctic.