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Multiple reports from eye witnesses have called on the authorities to comment on an unexplained incident that took place on Sunday across the Texas sky. The fireball, as it has been described (the incident was also captured by a local television station filming a marathon in Austin, Texas), was assumed to be linked to last week’s incident, when two satellites collided.
But Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig said they could not confirm this was a piece of falling debris from the recent collision. Even though the “fireball” is a fact, confirmed by footage and numerous reports, its origin still remains unknown.
It is worth mentioning though that the Federal Aviation Administration has warned pilots about possible hazards due to the re-entry of satellite debris into Earth’s atmosphere.
The U.S. Strategic Command however said there was no correlation between the space debris from the satellite collision and the phenomenon observed on the Texas sky at the end of last week. The investigation continues.
Last week, an unprecedented incident took place almost 500 miles above northern Siberia, as a privately held commercial communications satellite and a defunct Russian satellite bumped into each other.
The U.S. satellite has been identified as an Iridium communications satellite, while the Russian satellite has been identified as Cosmos 2255, launched in 1993 and confirmed to have been non-operational for the past decade. The satellites are normally being monitored, so it still remains unclear how the collision took place.
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