Residents in Okinawa, Japan, were left stunned as they looked to the sky on May 10.

A fiery meteor-like object streaked across the sky at around 8:30 pm local time.

Daichi Fujii, a meteor observation expert from the Hiratsuka City Museum, said that it is highly probable that the space debris that reentered Earth was from a Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched in November 2022.

Okinawa residents were stunned to witness a fiery meteor-like object streak across the skies on Wednesday night, May 10.

Many thought the object was a meteor entering the atmosphere. Daichi Fujii, a meteor observation expert from the Hiratsuka City Museum, said that it is highly probable that the space debris that reentered Earth was from a Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched in November 2022, basing from the location and angle of the speeding object.



RESTRICTIONS AND USAGE TERMS: Please credit “@nkgsk2021 via Spectee”.
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Video Location: Near Goeku Junior High School in Okinawa City, Okinawa, Japan
Video Recording Date/Time: May 10, 2023 at 20:34h
Country: Japan

Okinawa residents were stunned to witness a fiery meteor-like object streak across the skies on Wednesday night, May 10.

Many thought the object was a meteor entering the atmosphere. Daichi Fujii, a meteor observation expert from the Hiratsuka City Museum, said that it is highly probable that the space debris that reentered Earth was from a Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched in November 2022, basing from the location and angle of the speeding object.



RESTRICTIONS AND USAGE TERMS: Please credit “@kazuki08270 via Spectee”.
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Video Location: Near Yoron Airport, Yoron Island (near Okinawa) in Kagoshima, Japan
Video Recording Date/Time: May 10, 2023 at about 20:30h
Country: Japan