Thailand's social media heats up after an unidentified object flares down from the sky last Monday. A dash cam (Click for Video) was able to catch on record a fireball like object coming down from the sky and briefly illuminating the sky of Thailand's capital city. The so-called fireball was witnessed and seen from various areas throughout the city. According to witnesses it was a rush hour morning when their attention was caught by an object in the sky flaring momentarily before dying out.
Some footages where so clear that event can be liken to a Hollywood alien invasion scene. Following the incident the Deputy Director of National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, Saran Poshyachinda, told cnn that "there is a high possibility that the object spotted this morning... on social media, is an object from outer space." The agency believes that it was truly an extraterrestrial object, as to Poshyachinda words, he said that "it looks like an asteroid traveling to Earth and grazing through the air and it turned into a fireball. The said object was estimated to be 100 kilometers (62 miles) above the surface and "it might not weigh that much, about a few kilograms."
Another report also pointed out that the flaring object which was witnessed by the populace might also be a space junk burning up as it enters the earth's atmoshpere. Despite this reasonable explanation given by authorities, netizens had their own take about the incident. People were not stopped by asteroid and space junk claims to create their own theory about the event. As to be expected, social media was flooded by posts relegating the event into something more like of an alien or alien invasion (click for image). However, Worawit Tanwutthibundit, an astronomer at Chachoengsao Observatory, on statement via theguardian quickly dismissed such notion as he said that "the photo of the white smoke that has been shared a lot is in fact the train of smoke of a meteor. The public need not be concerned. This is a normal phenomenon."
