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“What a wonderful time to be alive, when people have these devices on their homes that can capture something that happens in their lifetime sky, because if they didn’t have that, this would just be a word of mouth,” said Michael Narlock, the head of astronomy at Cranbrook.

“The origins of this meteor shower are the remnants of Halley’s Comet tail, so we don’t usually associate comet tails with large chunks of debris, like obviously this fireball was,” Narlock said.

The American Meteorological Society has since come out and said the light was not caused by a meteoroid.

“They do a really god job of tracking all the stuff, and there’s lots of stuff in orbit around the earth, lots of things that are the remnants of our space program that are still up there that will eventually come back to earth,” Narlock said.