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A brush fire in Hubbard that officials said could have been
sparked by debris from space.

Eye on the Sky

Did you see the fireballs in the sky reported by witnesses
across Texas?

Yes No What fireballs?

Fireball in Sky Identified

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Did you see the fireballs in the sky reported by witnesses
across Texas?

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11%

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64%

What fireballs?

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Total Votes: 659

Fireball in Sky
Identified

Created On: Sunday, 15 Feb 2009, 1:12 PM CST

DALLAS - The fireball that blazed across the Texas sky and sparked numerous
weekend calls to law enforcement agencies now can be considered an identified
flying object.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday the fireball was a natural
phenomenon -- not flying space junk -- and a North Texas astronomer said more
specifically that it was probably a pickup truck-sized meteor with the
consistency of concrete.

The object was visible Sunday morning from Austin to Dallas and into East
Texas. In Central Texas, the Williamson County sheriff's office received so many
emergency calls that it sent a helicopter aloft to look for debris from a plane
crash.

The FAA backed off its weekend claim that the fireball possibly was caused by
falling debris from colliding satellites plummeting into earth's atmosphere.

SATELLITE THEORY

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.

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