Residents across western Japan were treated to a dazzling celestial display as a brilliant fireball streaked across the night sky on August 19. The phenomenon, identified by experts as an exceptionally bright meteor, was spotted by many in the Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures.

A fireball meteor lit up Japan’s Kyushu and Shikoku, following a rare Perseid meteoroid cluster. NASA notes 44 tonnes of meteoritic material hit Earth daily., Asia, Times Now