There was a mystifying slow-moving fireball that lit up the night sky from California to Texas last week, and no one knows what it is.
Rebecca Woods’s home camera in San Marco near San Diego caught moments of the magnificent sparkling globe that was making its way across the sky slowly followed by its shining tail. She first suspected it might be Starlink because of its path, but there were no launch schedules.
On July 25th, 34 reports concerning sightings of fireballs were received from California, Mexico and Texas by American Meteor Society. Videos and photos on their website feature this white glowing sphere moving at a slow pace through the skies.
According to Eric Sandquist, a professor and chair of the Astronomy Department at San Diego State University, he thinks it was Japanese space debris. “This object looks like one reported in this news story from Mexico; it is believed to be a Japanese booster rocket from a launch in 2010,” he said to NBC 7.
The trajectory west–east of the fireball suggests that it may have been an orbiting object re-entering Earth’s atmosphere; meanwhile, the slow speed negates meteor theory.
Someone in New Mexico saw it exploding into pieces. According to San Diego Police Comic Con was not linked to this event which happened over last weekend.
