We always wonder if there is life in outer space, when will be the moment they decided to try and contact us?
Could that be what hundreds of Texans saw flying in the night sky at the end of last week?
All across the state, people reported of a green fireball flying through the sky, estimated at going 58,000 mph, that eventually vanished over a park in Dallas.
The fireball was first spotted 54 miles over the town of Malakoff, Texas, at 10:32 p.m. Friday, June 21, before traveling 61 miles northwest in 3.8 seconds, disintegrating over Everglade Park in Dallas.
Some were expecting the fireball to crash land somewhere. One man said per the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “I was ready to hear an explosion.”
Some folks witnessed the fireball breaking apart as it flew by, sending “broken orange chunks” in its wake. “It was incredible,” a woman from Austin said. “I had never seen something shoot across the sky and explode like that.”
Representatives from NASA said there is “little to likely nothing” left of the fireball. “The object producing the fireball was too small and too fast to have generated any meteorites,” the agency said.
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