NASA confirmed that a fireball seen by residents throughout the Rio Grande Valley Tuesday night was a meteor.

According to a Wednesday statement from NASA, the meteor was first spotted 54 miles above Tres de Abril in northeast Mexico, traveling at 55,000 miles per hour.

The meteor appears to have disintegrated 35 miles above the small Mexican city of Linares after travelling 59 miles through the upper atmosphere.

The meteor sighting was detected in Houston. 

According to the American Meteor Society, over a dozen reports were made about the sighting Tuesday from across the Valley, and all the way to Sugarland.