Apparently there is some hype over the sighting that occurred during the marathon on Sun, Feb 15th some time  around 11:00 a.m. It is said that the collision of two satellites created the “fireball” that raced across the sky.  Some, like, Phil Plait of  Bad Astronomy Blog, speculate that it could not have been debris from two satellites, rather, a “single natural object.”

Phil goes on to say that the object in question was moving too fast and that “you’d have to have a pretty special set of circumstances to get any debris from the satellites to re-enter our atmosphere so soon after the collision. It’s far more likely that it will be months before we see any of that shrapnel burning up.”

Local news 8 cameraman Eddie Garcia caught it on tape and can be viewed here: