A rare fireball flew over Maine. Now there's a $25K reward for pieces of space rock

Rocks from a rare fireball have landed in an area across the Maine-Canada border, and a museum will pay people to find them. (AP)

A rare fireball was spotted streaking across the northern Maine sky in broad daylight last week. Experts hoping to study the meteorite are now offering a financial reward to anyone who can recover a piece of it.

NASA says this was the first radar-observed meteorite fall ever seen in Maine. Shortly before noon on Saturday, eyewitnesses reported seeing a bright fireball over New Brunswick, Canada, followed by "loud sonic booms" near Calais, Maine.