Mystery fireball streaks across Texas sky
Pastor Dale Morgan
Mystery fireball streaks across Texas sky
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DALLAS - AP-What looked like a fireball streaked across the Texas sky on
Sunday morning, leading many people to call authorities to report seeing
falling debris.
"We don't know what it was," said Federal Aviation Administration
spokesman Roland Herwig.
The Williamson County Sheriff's Office used a helicopter to search after
callers said they thought they saw a plane crashing, a spokesman said.
"We don't doubt what people saw" but authorities found nothing, said
spokesman John Foster.
The U.S. Strategic Command said there was no connection to the sightings
over Texas and Tuesday's collision of satellites from the U.S. and Russia.
"There is no correlation between the debris from that collision and
those reports of re-entry," said Maj. Regina Winchester, with STRATCOM.
The FAA notified pilots on Saturday to be aware of possible space debris
after a collision Tuesday between U.S. and Russian communication
satellites. The chief of Russia's Mission Control says clouds of debris
from the collision will circle Earth for thousands of years and threaten
numerous satellites.