An alleged low-flying meteor lit up the sky in Yushu City, northwest China, Qinghai Province on December 23, leaving residents stunned and surprised. The video of the rare natural phenomenon showing a glowing fireball crossing and illuminating the dark sky was widely posted on Weibo and Pear, the major social media platforms.
In some videos while the blindly glowing fireball passes through an area, in some of the videos that make wheels on the Internet they show the object on fire rapidly descending towards hills and fields.
The China Earthquake Network Center said through its social media account that a fireball suspect landed near the border between Nangqian County and Yusu County at 7:25 a.m., but no one was found. wounded. Things reported.
Following the incident, the Nangqian County government told the media that “the unidentified flying object” that appeared in the early hours of the morning flew towards the western lake of Qamdo and that no remains have been found. nor waste in Nangqian County, local NTDTV reported.
In traditional Chinese culture, meteorites in the sky are often seen as a precursor to important events or social unrest, and most are disastrous, Epoch Times reported that it explained the fear and panic among people online.
According to NASA’s Fireball and Bolide data provided by JPL’s CNEOS, the impact of the fireball in the region was also detected. According to data from its official site, its calculated total impact energy was 9.5 Kt and the speed recorded by the sensors was 13.6 km / s.
Earlier this month, a similar event was witnessed in Japan and videos of the fireball illuminating the sky began to circulate widely on the Internet.