Kevin what kind of altitude are we talking about when something breaks up upon entry or reentry . When we look at the altitude of the stay shadow space shuttle, 200300 miles up. The earths atmosphere is part of the vast majority a few hundred miles up. We have seen the stuff burn up when it gets relatively close to the surface of the earth. The meteor is the streak of light you see. When it gets to the ground, meteorite. Kevin i would assume they would be small pieces but there are also other satellites of their. Absolutely. The main iss has People Living in it. There have been very few cases of someone actually being hit. We have had cases of meteorites that went all the way to a house or ended up in a house. Its very unusual when it happens. Kevin let me ask you this. We had that video out of russia. Is this because this is happening more often or the fact the latter, almost certainly. Look how many pictures we have of it in the last halfhour. Jim bob, jim snyder here with you. Were speaking to bob pittman. We appreciate the expertise. You were talking about that one in russia. If memory serves, it wasnt the pieces hitting anyone that cause the damage, it was the force of the reentry. It was a sonic boom. You have a tremendous amount of force being exerted. In that case, it got close that kind of pressure weight moving across the surface can do a lot of damage. Jim it could be a piece of space junk or manmade material coming back to earth. Most people figure there is someone out there tracking every small piece out there but thats not the case. We are close to a lighter meteor shower for every year, that shower. Every year, the earth gains thousands of kinds of material. We very rarely see it in the daytime. Marie this is a fascinating site. I just want to place him on hold bring in new video. Another perspective we can take a close look at. A bit of a further shot. Don the lane shot this video. Donnie lane shot this video. You can really see the disintegration so clearly. Jim jeff is with us as well for i know you have been on the phone. Jeff i reached out to the faa and they had no idea what this could be, which indicates its not a plane falling down right now they would the aware of. Mccarran isnt aware of any aircraft traffic. This is really covering a huge blanket of the west from california. This is high up. Im not an expert astronomer but that looks like perhaps a comment or space junk. I dont know. Kevin we would have known if it was a comment. Commet. We would certainly have a good headset for Something Like that. Thats just not the way we see comets move. Jeff if there is wayward space junk, does the Strategic Air command or tracks it. They would know, wouldnt they . It depends on the size. There are over 20,000 objects falling. They have a good idea of when they would be reentering the atmosphere. Anything large coming in, we would know about it. These random meteors that are going through the atmosphere, these come from any direction and have no idea there out there. Jeff we have reached out to the Griffith Park observatory. This has been seen reno to laugin. Up. We could clearly triangulate on high high how high it was. It sounded like it was heading possibly. Jim what is the protocol . Is there an official agency that will go out to the desert and start looking for evidence . How does that work . If theres no damage done to anything, it will basically be amateur meteorite hunters. Some of them actually have some value. Marie the confirmation will come from the people who eat this stuff up, the people who live it for searching for these images. Kevin you said thats worth a lot of money. We will not see that on ebay. What is does a chunk of meteorite so for . It depends on how big it is but some are worth thousands of dollars. There is no guarantee you will find anything on the ground. Even though it was spectacular as it was, some large pieces could not even make it to the ground. Kevin you say the earth attracts 20,000 objects a day. There was another countrys in wasnt functioning, would we know about that . If it is something that was launched, the Defense Department and the people who do those kinds of searches would know about it. If it was something launched recently, it is something our government certainly knows about. If it was launched a while back and was in orbit, we also know about that. Somebody probably knows about it. I really think it was just a random meteor. Jim we will take a quick break and try to get some more marie still looking into that mysterious streak across southern nevada. People started calling to the newsroom and sending us these images. Jim it lasted so long, more than 10 minutes. It got so many peoples attention and everyone grabbed their phones and shot video of it. Kevin nothing goes on photographed anymore. Its a real treat to see if it was indeed a meteor breaking up. Theyre trying to figure out exactly where it might have been located and as bob pippin told us, you do that by triangulating. New sightings have come in from sacramento and more sightings in Southern California. I dont think we have heard from Southern Arizona yet. Most people saw this looking to bob, are you still on the phone . Jim he did give us good information. Kevin he is visiting family in missouri. Jim he saw some video but based on what he saw, his first inclination was to say meteor or space junk. Marie there are people in the booth telling me these are images from anthem now. You see that tale as well. Kevin you can see what people think its a comment because it does have a tail but you dont get them that close and they are usually seen millions of miles away. And we know a month in advance at least. Marie this would be a surprise people tracking comments comets. Kevin a comet is a big chunk of ice floating out there. Jim we know there arf plenty of people watching right now love very different ideas about what we are seeing. Kevin they are not quite as forthcoming with information. Marie some people are asking whether this is santa. But we know it was likely a meteor or some sort of space debris. Perhaps a 20yearold satellite from another country. Kevin it is interesting because nasa stays on top of this because of the International Space if this crashes into the earths miles up, they dont want to have anything tragic happen. The International Space station has previously had to readjust their orbit to avoid space junk in the past. Jim if you are just getting home and seeing these pictures, they can be alarming. We have heard from me faa from the faa and the aircraft controllers at mccarran. They say there are no aircraft unaccounted for and this is definitely not a commercial civilian aircraft. Marie lets talk about timeline. When will it ever we find out what this is . Kevin thats a good question. Most likely, you will have a team of astronomers probably at the planetarium analyze the video and say this is probably this. At where the space junk was and say its possible it could have been this. Thats probably what they are checking on right now. To see if it is anything that might have been losing orbit are getting clued too close to the earth orbit. I think we will know something certainly by the later newscast if not within the next hour. Jim Rosemary Clark is on the phone. Tell us what you saw. We are on the east side of time town. We had just pulled into our driveway and got an out of the car and we saw a huge fireball streaking across with a very long, white tail. Toward the southeast going downward. Then it was white as it went down and it looked like it was breaking up so we thought maybe it was an airplane and it probably wasnt. Marie we have clarification saying this was not a plane. Kevin is finding out that its perhaps a meteor or space debris. How long were you watching . There were some mountains and our way after a few minutes so probably for about five minutes. It was quite a long time. Jim we are hearing upwards of 10 minutes. What was going on in your neighborhood . I didnt see anybody else out. Driveway at the right time. I looked up and saw this thing streaking across the sky. It was amazing. The first time i have seen Something Like that. Jim it certainly got a lot of peoples attention. We were in the middle of our newscast and every phone started ringing simultaneously. We appreciate your perspective. Thank you. Marie we will stay on this mysterious object spotted in the sky. Jim more coverage on breaking news. To the south of las vegas heading generally west, you see this light in the sky with a big, bright ta and pieces disintegrating and falling to the earth. These reports coming from all across the west. Kevin we have heard from sacramento come all over Southern California from Santa Barbara to san diego. Reno dental laughlin. Down to laughlin. Were trying to get an idea of where it might be. The Griffith Park observatory, one of the most famous observatories on the planet. Thank you for joining us. What do you know about this object . A delight to speak with you. We have relatively Little Information in Southern California but we have gotten a couple cause calls on it as far to ventura california. It appeared at the speed of light and prominent in the sky to the east and seemed to move from the northeast to the southeast. That suggested it was taking some distance apart from us. Thats just about the extent of the information we have from here but it sounds like a bright meteor a good hundreds of miles kevin we hear it was visible in the sky for 510 minutes before we saw it disintegrate. Youre confident it was a meteor and not some old space junk. Confidence around Something Like this is impossible because when you speak about the scattered eyewitness reports, you dont have enough information. As far as space junk is concerned, after a day or so, if it was material in orbit, that is likely to be released by nasa or a related agents the. Meantime, all you can presume is it is material from space. It does come down on the planet owl of the time. Normally, nothing is seen moving across the sky over a. s over a time as long as you said. Space debris usually only lasts a short time over the sky. A trail may be left in the honest error the object. That often does happen. That of course can persist in the sky for a while. Five minutes is a long time even for that. Kevin for your own information, on the video we have, its very, it it appears like a comet. I cannot comment on what timeframe. In the sense that the event lasted that long. You may have gotten a sequence of calls over a time ok, were here. Heres dad. Mom. The twins. 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