Bright Sphere in the Sky: Causes Identified

The flying object seen in the Mauritian sky , Sunday, Sept. 29, has been identified. It is the remains of a spacecraft used to propel the Falcon 9 rocket carrying a weather satellite, advance a South African astronomer in the online edition of The Age . The halo seen several hours after, in fact, fuel tanks released to increase traction on the return of the rocket in the air to avoid an incident.

On the site of NBC News , explains that the rocket Falcon 9 , which is used for commercial flights to space, was aboard the satellite CASSIOPE. Launched in California in 20 hours Sunday, the rocket has fallen a few hours later. And it is a common practice to release the fuel tanks entering the earth's atmosphere to reduce the amount of debris orbiting the Earth, according to the South African astronomer Greg Roberts.

It is therefore by no means an unidentified flying object, or other causes as many are advanced at first on social networks. Even advanced by the Association of astronomers at Mauritius theories were not plausible. They are also aligned with the explanation Greg Roberts.

The meteorological station of Vacoas claimed, meanwhile, that it was not a weather event. She told the Express on Sunday, a driver of a commercial flight had seen the phenomenon. The bright object was sighted 3-4 nautical mile, but dissipated.