Africa-Press – South-Africa. Social media users were left scratching their heads after videos emerged showing a bright object in the sky on Sunday afternoon.
They speculated it could be a meteorite, an alien body or even South Africa coming under attack.
Professor Andrew Chen of Witwatersrand University’s school of physics put people’s minds at ease and said it was debris from a Russian rocket.
The person who captured the video can be heard saying: “What is this, what the hell, this is how they are bombing us and it is getting brighter and brighter… It is falling now, it has separated and it’s now two of them.”
The two people in the background start to make worrying sounds before the debris disappears.
Chen told News24 people should not be worried as there were systems in place that directed the debris into the ocean.
According to him, such objects were hardly found on land as a large part of the planet was covered in water.
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