(CNN)September 15-- What exactly was seen in the skies
across the Southwestern U.S. Wednesday night? Was it a meteor, a falling
satellite or, perhaps, something more mysterious?
A streak of light
that some are describing as a fireball, was seen shooting across the night sky
and law enforcement and media from Phoenix to Los Angeles to Las Vegas were
fielding calls of the reported sighting.
Lt. Justin Griffin
of the Maricopa Sheriff Department in Arizona was trying to guess what the
strange light was.
"Believe it was
a meteorite traveling from north to south across Maricopa County," Griffin
said. "The 911 call center received a flood of calls."
Griffin said there
were no reports of impact or damage.
"People are,
indeed, reporting they saw a light head from west to east across the sky. We
got reports from CHP and the FAA about callers seeing the light. It is
reasonable to say that it may be a meteor," Curt Kaplan, a meteorologist
with the National Weather Service told CNN affiliate KCAL.
There are no reports
of aircraft incidents across Southern California, said FAA spokesperson Ian
Gregor.
The sighting quickly
became a hot topic on a number of social media websites with most asking,
"Did you see it? What was that?"
NASA officials
announced this week the now-defunct Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite is
expected to fall back to Earth in the coming weeks.
There was no word on
whether what was seen Wednesday was that satellite.
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