CANADA: The bright light that streaked across skies throughout the American Southeast early Monday morning was probably a piece of space junk crashing back to Earth, researchers say.
The mysterious sky light blazed up at 1:29 a.m. ET on Monday and was witnessed by skywatchers from Louisiana to Virginia — and by all six meteor-observing cameras operated by NASA in the Southeast.
But this was no meteor, said Bill Cooke, head of the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
“It moved too slowly,” Cooke said in a video released by NASA on Monday. “This thing hit the atmosphere moving between 14,000 and 16,000 miles per hour, and while that sounds fast, meteors move at 24,000 miles per hour or faster.”
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