Residents in Japan saw an unidentified object that fell from the skies in the middle of the night around 1:35 am last Sunday, November 29.
Reports from Kyodo News state that it was a fireball shooting star, or a bolide – that emitted a light comparable to a full moon.
In a video compilation posted by NHK, the light could clearly be seen across parts of Japan.
Takeshi Inoue, director of the Akashi Municipal Planetarium in Hyogo Prefecture, stated that such occurrences of bright lights in the middle of the night are rare.
“We believe the last burst of light was as bright as the full moon,” he said.
In July, another bright shooting star was caught on cam moving from southwest to northeast across Tokyo’s skies. Experts later identified the object as a meteor when they found fragments of it at the Chiba Prefecture.
The National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has said several fireballs are observed every month on average, but it is rare for people to hear anything.
People across wide areas of Japan were treated to a spectacular light show in the early hours of Sunday, thanks to what is believed to be a meteor. pic.twitter.com/r0HfI082SK
— NHK WORLD News (@NHKWORLD_News) November 30, 2020
