A fireball streaked across the sky in western Japan, lighting up the sky as if it were daytime; however, this is simply a natural phenomenon, not an alien invasion.
Maeda Toshihisa, director of the Sendai Space Museum in the Kagoshima area of southwestern Japan, said it was a fireball—an exceptionally bright meteor—that appears to have fallen into the Pacific Ocean.
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) pointed out that objects causing fireball meteor events may exceed 1 meter in size. Fireballs that explode in the atmosphere are often referred to as bolides.
A camera set up by Kyodo News in Nachikatsuura Town, Wakayama Prefecture, captured the intense light at 11:08 p.m. local time on the 19th. The suddenly appearing spherical luminous body pierced the dark night sky, expanding into a huge ball of light as it fell, illuminating the sky as if it were daylight. The light captured by the camera lasted for about 4 seconds.
The spherical object was observed across wide areas of western Japan, including Kinki, Shikoku, and Kyushu.