The event has got wide coverage through social media as many people posted videos and pictures with their guesses about the meteor-like object. “It looked like it just kept getting closer to the ground and was on its way to crashing when it disappeared”.
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Meanwhile, a US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesperson said the object, which was seen over Walker County in Alabama, was a meteor. However, NASA officials resolved the mystery on Monday saying it was indeed a space debris, which was captured by its five meteor cameras in the southeast part of US, Northwest GA News reported. The agency said they had no information about any plane crashes or other accidents in the region, and that the fireball was most likely a meteor.
“It wasn’t a meteor, it moved too slowly”. “This thing hit the atmosphere moving between 14,000 and 16,000 mph [22,500 to 25,750 km/h], and while that sounds fast, meteors move at 24,000 mph [39,000 km/h] or faster”.
A massive fireball was seen in the skies over multiple states in America yesterday and the cause of it has left everyone baffled, including the experts in NASA.
“On the average I see two or three reports every month of a bright, really bright fireball”, Dundee said.
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The American Meteor Society has received around 130 reports about the sighting from skywatchers, who were mostly from Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee with the object initially speculated to be a meteorite, a UFO or a piece of space junk. “This however was very slow and passing through our atmosphere as if traveling to some out of the way location… perhaps the ocean, where it’s base is located”.
