Great Fireball In The Sky Still Talk of Town - Central Coast News KION/KCBA

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.- We can't seem to shake the image or quell the excitement even days later of seeing, what to many looked like a spaceship, a meteor in the clear skies Wednesday night.

NASA confirms it was a large meteor and the video proves it, but it's now being called the great Bay Area fireball of 2012 and it is the real deal, straight from NASA.

The meteor was so bright Wednesday night, it blew out the exposure on the research cameras, according to KPIX, a CBS station. Scientists can still use it to calculate its speed, size, and ultimately, where it landed.

NASA researchers said it was traveling at more than 8 miles per second. It entered the atmosphere off the coast of Monterey, heading northeast, and made landfall somewhere in the North bay.

KPIX reported, NASA said these asteroids have an origin in the asteroid belt. They all tell a story about our origins, how the earth was formed, how life originated on our planet, and those are the questions that interest us.