Americans Look to the Skies in the Wake of UFO Reports
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Americans are paying attention to the skies as a result of a
congressional subcommittee hearing on UFOs. While there was no proof of
alien visitation at the hearing, locals near the Gulf Coast saw a
dazzling "fireball" flash across the sky. The American Meteor Society
got around 54 reports about this occurrence. Witnesses saw the fireball
begin as a single item before shattering into many pieces. Initially,
there were jokes about aliens, but most people assumed it was related to
the Perseid meteor shower, which is expected to climax this weekend.
A
closer look revealed that the fireball was actually space debris
re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. The debris is most likely from the
second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, which successfully launched the
AXIOM-2 from the Kennedy Space Centre on May 21. According to models
from Aerospace.org and SATVIEW.org, the Axiom-2 debris will re-enter the
atmosphere between Thursday evening and Friday day.
Space trash,
often known as orbital debris or "space junk," is made up of both
natural and man-made objects that are floating or circling in space.
According to NASA, the majority of the space debris seen burning up in
Earth's atmosphere is of human origin.
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