(WWJ) -- A fireball that lit up the sky over metro Detroit this week was actually a Russian surveillance satellite.
NASA confirms the light seen streaking across the sky early Wednesday morning was a reconnaissance satellite falling back to Earth, MLive reports.
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The trail of Kosmos-2551 was reported 153 times with the American Meteor Society as it moved from southeast to northwest across Michigan. It was also spotted as far away as Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Tennessee.
The satellite was reentering the atmosphere on Wednesday just before 1 a.m. after failing shortly after its Sept. 9 takeoff, according to NASA's Meteor Watch.
A Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist says it is unlikely any debris reached the ground.
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