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Fireball over Austin

The daily and various other local media, including News 8 in this video, claim the fireball was either a mystery, debris from the colliding Russian and American satellites, or other debris from previous space missions. But Space Weather says it was a plain (albeit unusually large) meteoroid.

"Astronomer Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office has reviewed the video and confirms ‘it’s a natural meteor, definitely.’ According to his analysis, the source of the fireball was a meter-class asteroid traveling at about 20 km/s."

So, UFO lovers/believers. Read it and weep.