Unusual radiance illuminates the nighttime horizon.
In the night, an illuminated aerial anomaly traversed over Southern Germany. Some users on platform X hypothesized that this spectacle was a meteorite. Professionals, however, propose a different account.
People in diverse German regions were presumably left spellbound when a brilliant light streak suddenly emerged in the night sky. Various recordings of an unidentified aerial object were circulated on X, allegedly prominent in Southern Germany around 21:30. There are also claims from Switzerland, France, and Italy about the mysterious, radiant object that traversed the sky. On certain X-videos, it seems to comprise multiple flying objects.
The query of what they had just witnessed sparked among the viewers on X. A plane appears implausible, as the object was too swift, but too sluggish for a comet. Several users suggested that it could have been a meteorite.
However, Fabian Mathis, president of the Astronomical Society of Zurich's Unterland, is not convinced it was a typical meteor. "Based on the relatively modest speed and the manner it split, I would speculate it's re-entering space waste or something akin," he told Swiss medium Blick.
Space expert Men J. Schmidt from St. Gallen, who witnessed the event himself, informed Blick: "A credible explanation is that it was fragments of a satellite or a rocket." Such objects naturally make their way to Earth.
According to "Météo Express," a weather service for France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Andorra, the trail was noticeable over France. The weather service writes on X-shared recordings of the incident that it was the "disintegration of a satellite."
X users propose that the Starlink satellite "Starlink 2382" re-entry into Earth's atmosphere triggered the luminous display. During a "re-entry," space waste incinerates. SpaceX, the mastermind behind the Starlink satellite network, has yet to opine on this theory.
The theory about the Starlink satellite contributing to the spectacle gained traction among some users, suggesting it could be the re-entry of 'Meteorites and other objects' like space waste or fragments. Despite the object's swift yet sluggish movement, it remains unclear if it was purely a meteorite or a combination of 'Meteorites and other objects'.
