The fireball was also video-recorded by passengers on a plane traveling from Xi’an to Lhasa as it lightened up the sky. Several videos and photos of the mysterious event was shared on social media.A Twitter user said how a similar incident happened in Alabama, where a meteor shone bright in the skies. He wrote, ”Today two strange and sensational events took place in Qinghai China and in Marshall County Alabama USA. A Meteor makes a LANDFALL in qinghai while in Alabama a Meteor SHINES BRIGHT in the SKIES. We will be needing astrologers to help us MAKE SENSE out of the strange events.”Through its social media, China’s Earthquake Networks Centre also confirmed that a suspected bolide landed near the border between Nangqian County and Yusu County at 7.25am, but no one was injured.A NASA report suggests that more than 50,000 meteorites have been found on earth, of December 2019.A giant fireball has been spotted flashing across the sky and crashing into a county in southern #China.
— Mete Sohtaoğlu (@metesohtaoglu) December 23, 2020
Footage taken by stunned locals shows an unidentified object exploding into a blazing sphere as it plunges at a fast speed towards the earth.
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