Mysterious Fireball Lights Up Sky In 4 States [VIDEO]

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SOUTHEAST UNITED STATES — A massive fireball was spotted by the residents of Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama at about 1:30am local time, local media reported.

Residents kind of freaked out and didn’t know what it was, sending photos and videos to local news stations and posting the images on social media.

NASA says the item is most likely “Space-Junk” falling toward Earth.

Witnesses described the object as a bright fireball with a long smoke-like tale behind, saying it was moving from west to east only to disappear few moments after it was spotted.

From WSB-TV: — NASA says the debris was traveling around 14,500 miles per hour and was tracked by five NASA cameras in the southeast.

The Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville is part of NASA’s fireball camera network and monitors the sky on clear nights for events like this.

After a meteor shot through the sky in 2014, they say it happens regularly.
“Every once in a while the earth runs into these objects as we’re moving around the sun,” said David Dundee from the Tellus Science Museum. “On the average I see two or three reports every month of a bright, really bright fireball.” —

 

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