Americans Look to the Skies in the Wake of UFO Reports

 

 

More 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.