Mysterious fireball blocks in the American sky

A mass of fire rushed over the sky of Texas, causing many to claim that they saw garbage falling from the universe. The light block moved through Austin, Dallas before heading east to Texas State and disappearing on Sunday morning.

"We don't know what it is, but that can be a natural phenomenon," said Roland Herwig, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Authority.

Williamson County Police, Texas, used a helicopter to search for fireballs after many people called the emergency number and said it could be a falling plane.

"We do not doubt the announcement of the people, but the authorities did not find anything," said police spokesman Williamson.

The US Strategic Command confirmed that fireballs are not related to the collision between the two satellites of the US and Russia on February 10 . "What people see in the sky of Texas is not a piece of a satellite crash," Major Regina Winchester of the US Strategic Command said.

Preston Starr, an astronomer from the University of North Texas (USA), also denied the possibility of a fireball being a debris and thought it was a meteorite about the size of a large truck.

"People can only see strange objects during the day if it emits very strong light. The fragment from the satellite crash is small so it cannot fly quickly and emit such strong light." he explained.

According to Preston, about 10 meteors of the size of this fireball are plunging into the earth every year. They move at a speed of 24,000-64,000 km / h.

The US Federal Aviation Agency once warned pilots that the debris of a collision between two satellites could cause an accident for the aircraft. Russian space experts say that the debris will fly around the earth for several thousand years and threaten hundreds of satellites.

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