FAA says Texas fireball was meteor

February 16, 2009 By JEFF CARLTON , Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- The fireball that streaked across the sky and alarmed numerous Texas residents was likely just a big meteor and not wreckage from colliding satellites, experts said Monday.

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