Have you seen video of that mystery fireball reported flying over Texas on Sunday? Check out a CNN video posted on You Tube here.
If you missed it, here's an Associated Press report about the incident:
DALLAS (AP) - What looked like a fireball streaked across the Texas sky on Sunday morning, leading many people to call authorities to report seeing falling debris.
"We don't know what it was," said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig.
The Williamson County Sheriff's Office used a helicopter to search after callers said they thought they saw a plane crashing, a spokesman said.
"We don't doubt what people saw" but authorities found nothing, said spokesman John Foster.
The U.S. Strategic Command said there was no connection to the sightings over Texas and Tuesday's collision of satellites from the U.S. and Russia.
"There is no correlation between the debris from that collision and those reports of re-entry," said Maj. Regina Winchester, with STRATCOM.
The FAA notified pilots on Saturday to be aware of possible space debris after a collision Tuesday between U.S. and Russian communication satellites.
The chief of Russia's Mission Control says clouds of debris from the collision will circle Earth for thousands of years and threaten numerous satellites.
2 comments:
Too fast and going in the wrong direction for it to be debris from the recent collision.
Most like it was a meteor.
Could be meteor or maybe small fragments coming off an asteroid that early warning space scopes have missed. That should get your nerves rattled. It's happened before folks, just look at the dinosaurs; and to make it worse we are long over due to get hit from a major space rock. Saturday night I saw debris hailing from space from my backyard in Satellite Beach about 9 p.m., same type, it's just not coincidence.
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