A brilliant fireball was seen blazing across the Kanto sky, including Tokyo, shortly after midnight on Thursday.
Witnesses reported the sound of an explosion shortly after seeing it.
"I thought the ground was rumbling," wrote one user on social media. "The windows of the house were rattling," wrote another.
The fireball was spotted around 2:30 a.m. that morning, according to Daichi Fujii, 34, a curator in charge of astronomy at Hiratsuka City Museum in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, who recorded a video of the fireball from his home in the same city.
According to Fujii, it was very unusual to hear the sound of the fireball as it arched from west to east. "It was a large fireball brighter than the full moon and it's possible that the fireball crashed into the Earth before burning up completely," Fujii said.
The fireball was thought to be a type of meteor.
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