Today, James and I were driving down Hwy 75 towards Uptown to clean up our old apartment after our big move this weekend. All of a sudden, I said “James, what is that?” and pointed to the sky. It was some fireball in the sky streaming down faster than I’ve ever seen – too big for a firework and too small for an airplane but we were literally driving and watching this “thing” light up the day time sky (it was right before 11:00am CST on Sunday). I immediately called my Dad to tell him what we witnessed. Was it an airplane that exploded (Dallas Love and DFW are both in the vicinity of where we were) or was it a meteorite during the day? We had no idea. I then told James, maybe it was pieces of the satellites that crashed earlier this week but then we dismissed that because we thought we had read that the debris from the Russian and US satellites would be in orbit for “thousands” of years.

Well, now it’s 5pm and it looks like tons of Texans saw what we witnessed. Thank God. And according to the FAA, it does appear to be a satellite debris of some kind. They have NOT confirmed which satellite it is, but it has to be the Russian and US communications satellites that crashed, right?

So glad to know what we witnessed is now caught on tape. Here’s a video of someone taping a marathon in Austin, TX and you can see the bright flash – their view was NOTHING like ours – it literally seemed to happen right in front of our car. Insane.

Tags: Dallas, Debris, satellite, video

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