A fireball in the sky caused a sensation in New York as it passed over the city in broad daylight on Tuesday. The phenomenon was a meteor, the US space agency NASA announced on Facebook early Wednesday, a trail of light that is created when rock debris from space enters the Earth’s atmosphere. The analysis of witness reports suggests that the streak of light became visible over the city on Tuesday morning and then travelled west at a speed of around 61,000 kilometres per hour towards the state of New Jersey. The phenomenon was accompanied by thunder-like noises and tremors similar to an earthq…