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Whatever it was that flew from west to east through the sky Wed. night over 1 or 2 southwest states still has folks wondering whether it's a meteor shower, fireball, space debris or, you know it, a UFO.

Remember that UFO means Unidentified Flying Object, so unarguably, it is, for the moment at least, a UFO. From Southern CA to Arizona and NV, eyewitnesses affirmed a series of green-blue and yellowish lights.

Astronomer Edwin Krupp, director of the Griffith Observatory in Los angeles, informed the Huffington Post the affair was probably a meteor swarm.

"Noone has got a clue precisely how enormous this object was, but it needs to be something you could hold in your hand," Krupp related. "It can be anywhere from a pebble to a rock to a football -- it's a very small object."

The general outline of the object received by news distribution centres and police departments in the dusk was of a green and orange falling object with a tail behind it.

Krupp illustrates that eyewitnesses find it hard to believe when they learn the "UFO" they just saw was actually quite small.

"What often confuses people when you are saying that is they start to think, 'Wait a minute. If this is a really little object, how come I can see it? ' Naturally, they're not seeing it -- they're seeing the super-heated air, which is a massive column of air that could be miles in diameter.

"Once I heard the reports were coming in from Arizona and Nevada, I knew this wasn't a local event in any way. To see something over that big off an area, you know that it's going down at a huge altitude," Krupp said.

Curiously, in the TV news reports of the streaking meteor, one video shows something that does not look to be a falling star or piece of space debris. It depicts a couple of lit objects over Glendora, Calif, that seem to slowly move backwards and forwards in the sky -- not precisely typical meteor behaviour.

Could these be other types of mysterious objects?

"Certainly, it's correct to claim that the majority are not used to taking a look at the sky, not used to judging either lightness, distance or angled size in the sky, and therefore, have a very good chance of misidentifying objects or effects in the sky," said Krupp. "There are all kinds of explanations for UFOs, and the least likely is that they are spacecraft from another world.

"There are occasionally peculiar lights seen in the night skies that avoid identification, because we don't have enough information to nail them down."
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