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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s North Korea’s Christmas “surprise”!
Nope, it’s likely a meteor, the National Weather Service said.
A fireball streaking across the sky over Guam and the Mariana Islands Friday night led residents to speculate the amazing sight was everything from a UFO to a Chinese rocket to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un’s threatened Christmas “gift.”
“There have been numerous sightings and videos of bright light breaking up over the skies of Saipan and Guam. Based on the videos, it is probably a meteorite breaking up in the sky as it enters the earth’s atmosphere. Some residents also reported hearing explosion during this incident and it is not uncommon. Another possibility is this could be debris from an earlier Chinese rocket or booster test,” the National Weather Service said on its Facebook page.
The National Weather Service posted video that showed the fireball moving over a Home Depot.
On Thursday, soldiers ran for cover at the US military base in South Korea that is closest to North Korea after an emergency air raid siren was mistakenly played instead of taps.