Recently a number of people noticed a Calgary fireball in the night sky, and some even managed to capture the event on film or video. Was it a UFO, a piece of space debris, a spacecraft re-entering the atmosphere, or something else entirely? So far the answer has no been identified, but that has not stopped social media from buzzing about the event and posing questions and possible answers. Photographer Neil Zeller actually captured some photos of the Calgary fireball on Monday night as he was looking to get some pictures of the northern lights in the night sky. Zeller told a reporter from the Sun “It kinda freaked me out. I thought it was a jetliner crashing there were so many pieces to it.”

The recent Calgary fireball is probably not a UFO, and there are some very plausible explanations for what happened. Some have expressed belief that the event was actually a meteor traveling through the earth’s atmosphere. Utah media outlets have been told by Patrick Wiggins, a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador, that the cause of the fireball in the sky was probably the re-entry of the body of the rocket that was used in December to launch the Chinese Yaogan Weixing-26 satellite. Anyone who missed the Calgary fireball Monday night can see videos of the event on social media sites. Some of the videos that have been uploaded may contain some graphic language though, so viewers should use caution about viewing the videos with younger children around.