possible meteor fireball over India
© YouTube/Kanishka Verma (screen capture)

The strange light was observed by baffled residents on May 20, 2016 at 8.37 pm.

Is that another big meteor exploding in thousand incandescent pieces? Well it seems that the weird flying object is disintegrating. However the phenomenon is too long to be a meteor flying in the sky.

Or could it be space junk re-entering Earth's atmosphere? According to Satview.org, no re-entries have taken place on May 20, 2016. The next re-entry is sheduled for tomorrow, May 22, 2016, at around 9pm (UTC).

So what was this weird light on fire in the night sky of India?