Last week, the night sky from California to Texas was lit up a little extraordinarily when a mysterious and slow-moving fireball traversed through it which left people puzzled about its identity.
According to the media reports, in the camera footage, the lit ball of fire was spotted slowly moving across the sky and leaving behind a trail through its bring trail outside of San Diego over the home of Rebecca Woods who lives in San Marco.
Woods said, ‘Our camera is facing south and the object flew from west to east’. She added, ‘I first thought it might be a Starlink launch this is the exact trajectory I’ve seen in previous launches but there was nothing scheduled’.
There were 34 reports of a fireball submitted to the American Meteor Society on July 25 from California to Texas. The mysterious object’s photos and videos on the website of the organisation show that a white ball is slowly blazing through the sky.
Professor and the department chair of San Diego State’s Astronomy Department Eric Sandquist said that it can be a Japanese space junk. He said, ‘The object appears to be the same one in this news story from Mexico. It is believed to be a Japanese booster rocket from a launch in 2010’.
‘There is a link on the page to a prediction that the rocket would de-orbit at about the time observed’, he added.
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