A fireball, in all probability an exceptionally bright meteorite, crossed the sky of western Japan yesterday, surprising residents and amateur astronomers. The images published online show an extremely bright light ball, visible from hundreds of kilometers away shortly after 23:00 on Tuesday local time (16:00 yesterday in Italy). Numerous testimonies in the media and on social networks.
Toshihisa Maeda, director of the Sendai space museum in the prefecture of Kagoshima, in south-western Japan, said that it was an exceptionally bright meteorite, which seems to have crashed into the Pacific, he added. “People reported having heard the air vibrate,” he said to the FP. This flying object “was as bright as the moon”. According to NASA, the objects that cause fire balls can overcome the diameter meter.