Did you see it? Maybe wonder what it was?
If so, you weren't alone.
Sunday night about 10:24 pm the summer's night over Texas was illuminated by a brilliant ball of light streaking across the sky.
It could be seen all over the state and into Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Social media was ablaze with photos, videos and speculation. Just what was it? Could it possibly contain ... alien life?
Never fear. According to the American Meteor Society and the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the fireball Sunday night was most like a meteoroid -- a rocky or metallic body in outer space --that was entering Earth's atmosphere at high speed, burning and becoming a meteor.
Right now we are n the middle of three active meteor showers -- the Southern Delta Aquariids, the Alpha Capricornids and the Perseids. So it's a great time to see shooting stars.
So don't be alarmed. The fireball Sunday was from "out there." But there was nothing alive about it.