Fireball ‘bright as the moon’ lights up sky over western Japan | Meteors

Western Japan’s sky, shocking inhabitants and dazzling starrsarers a flashing fire ball, but experts, it is a natural phenomenon, not a foreign invasion, he said.

Videos and photos appeared on the online of the extremely bright light ball that appeared for hundreds of miles after the local time (1400 BST) on Tuesday.

Yoshihiko Hamahata, who driving in the Miyazaki province, said, “A white light that I have never seen before came down from above and I could clearly see the shapes of the houses around us.”

“It looked like daylight. I didn’t know what happened for a moment and I was very surprised.”

Toshihisa Maeda, President of the Sentai Space Museum in the Kagoshima region in Southwest Japan, said it was a very bright meteor.

He seemed to have entered the Pacific, he said, he added: “People reported that the weather felt vibrating. It was as bright as the moon.”

According to NASA, objects that cause such fire ball events may exceed one meter (3FT). The fire balls exploding in the atmosphere are technically called bolides, but the term of the fire ball is often used interchangeably.