"Fireballs" reportedly streaked across the sky in Texas on February 15, 2009, and video of a meteor-like object was captured by Austin's News 8 TV as the station covered a local marathon.CNN: Texans Report Fireball in Sky, Sonic Booms (February 15, 2009) Many believed the cause to have been debris from the satellites that collided over Siberia on February 10, but the FAA confirmed that the flying object was indeed a meteor.FOX News: Texas Fireball Was Meteor (February 16, 2009) Two pieces of the object were subsequently found and put for auction.Dallas News: Meteor that blazed across Texas sky going up for auction (February 26, 2008)
Texas Fireball Qoutes
"It was like a ball of flame with a tail. It looked like a meteor. There was flame and then a flash and smoke trailing it."—Doug Schmidt of Richardson, TexasDallas Morning News: Fiery debris seen in Texas skies not from satellite collision... (February 15, 2009)
"If you were looking up at the southern sky, you couldn't miss it."—Chris Weaver of Ovilla, TexasDallas Morning News: Fiery debris seen in Texas skies not from satellite collision... (February 15, 2009)
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Wreckage of the shuttle Columbia landed in rural Texas in 2003TIME Magazine: The Sky Isn't Falling --Yet (February 15, 2009)
