Mysterious Texas Fireball A Meteor? (VIDEO)

An unknown object being called a Texas fireball was caught on tape by a cameraman filing the Austin Marathon. But what was it? A meteor? Read more on the Texas fireball and see video below.

Some people were speculating that the Texas fireball could possibly be debris from last week’s Iridium Satellite Collision.

The sight caused tons of calls from people thinking there had been a plane crash.

“We don’t know what it was,” said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig.

“We don’t doubt what people saw” but authorities found nothing, said spokesman John Foster.

The U.S. Strategic Command said there was no connection to the sightings over Texas and Tuesday’s collision of satellites from the U.S. and Russia.

The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday 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.

The object was visible Sunday morning from Austin to Dallas and into East Texas.

The FAA backed off its weekend claim that the fireball was caused by falling debris from colliding satellites plummeting into earth’s atmosphere.

Check out the Texas fireball meteor for yourself in this video below:

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