Texas Fireball Likely a Metallic Meteor

A fairly large meteor cam crashing down in west Texas last week just after a pair of satellites were reported to have collided. There was a lot of speculation that chunks of satellite debris fell over Texas as a large fireball. At about the same time sonic boons were being heard over Kentucky, and something was said to have fallen from the sky somewhere in the eastern part of Kentucky.

Officials that are tracking the satellite debris, say that the falling objects could not have been from the left over satellites since they were not in the vicinity. It is more likely that both were meteorites. Based on the burn color, the meteorite in Texas is metallic in origin, and likely to have been the size of a pickup truck.

Since the meteor was so big, a number of meteorite hunters are flocking to West Texas to try to find pieces of the space rock. Texas is a big state! To find something on the ground, hunters are going to have to rely on pure dumb luck!

A UFO of a Different Sort

It is quite common for weather balloons to be mistaken for a UFO as they float listlessly across early morning and evening skies. As they reach great altitudes they expand in the thin atmosphere, and as sunlight reflects off of them, they appear as white orbs in the sky.

However, off the San Diego coastline in the Pacific Ocean, a weather balloon became another sort of UFO. That is, it became an Unidentified Floating Object.

The little white box with wires poking out of its sides attracted the attention of the US Coast Guard as they were performing routine patrols. They did not know what to make of the object, and called in a bomb squad and a remote controlled bomb disposal robot investigate.

Here is a link the news story from 10 News