Texas fireball 'was meteor, not UFO'

The fireball that blazed across the Texas sky and sparked numerous weekend calls to police was an identified flying object, it emerged today.

Texas fireball 'was meteor, not UFO'

The fireball that blazed across the Texas sky and sparked numerous weekend calls to police was an identified flying object, it emerged today.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the fireball was a natural phenomenon, not flying space junk, and a North Texas astronomer said more specifically that it was probably a pickup truck-sized meteor with the consistency of concrete.

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