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A sighted fireball falling from the night sky over parts of western and central Japan has sparked social media, with users sharing images of the unusually bright shooting star.
According to an NDTV report, local media said on Sunday that the fireball was believed to be a fireball, an extremely bright meteor that explodes in the atmosphere.
NHK News
“We believe the latest burst of light was as bright as the full moon,” Kyodo Takeshi Inoue, director of the Akashi Municipal Planetarium, told news agency.
A video tweeted by Japanese public broadcaster NHK World News shows the meteor lighting up the sky in Japan, including the cities of Kyoto, Yamaguchi, Shizuka and Okayama.
People in large 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
The fireball was only visible for a few seconds in the early hours of Sunday, but was caught on cameras owned by national broadcaster NHK, which generally capture earthquake activity rather than extraterrestrial light shows.
“Fireball observed over Japan” – what it is @SeenConnors until? There are only a few days left and you already create problems with his football?! pic.twitter.com/WVCxPEpV9A
– The UX CTO (Sylvain Reiter) (@sylvainreiter) November 29, 2020
Watch more as the meteor shoots across the sky and then disappears.
A brightly glowing fireball among shooting stars was observed over a large area of western Japan after 1:30 a.m. on the 29th. Https://t.co/QCOgTZy7qp pic.twitter.com/RKTx7zYwkN
– NHK News (@nhk_news) November 28, 2020
The Reuters news agency also released a video with a dashcam that captured the rare phenomenon.
Dashcam captures footage of the moment a meteor flashes in Japan pic.twitter.com/5dSKfwFI0o
– Reuters (@Reuters) November 30, 2020
An equally bright shooting star was spotted over Tokyo in July and later identified as a meteor, fragments of which were found in nearby Chiba prefecture.
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