Here is another newly found asteroid set to pass very close to our planet.
Asteroid 2017 BS32 set to pass between Earth and the Moon Feb. 02. The space rock was first observed by Catalina Sky Survey on 2017-01-30.
It will fly by Earth at a distance of 161280 km which is about 0.4 times the distance to the Moon at a speed (relative to the Earth) of 11.57 km/s. It is estimated to be 11 m - 26 meters in size. It has a condition code of 7 belongs to a group of asteroids, named Aten.
A UFO sighting to be falling in the background of the skyline just outside of a Russian city. The UFO was seen to be descending at an alarming rate.
A video shot in Russia has got UFO watchers excited after some claimed it was an alien vehicle plunging into the earth.
The video was shot by Russian man Mikhail Litvinov who said he spotted the device leaving a huge plume of gas behind it as it plunged to earth on the outskirts of the central Russian city of Kemerovo.
It quickly attracted thousands of views as people debated what it could be, with many pointing out it was too slow to be a meteorite, but producing too much of a gas trail to be an aeroplane.
The gas is off-white in colour at the tail end but becomes blacker closer to the object.
Speaking to Russian news site Komsomolskaya, Litvinov said: ''From my side I hope it was a shooting star.''
Journalists from Russian news site Bloknot contacted Russian airborne forces who said that there were no registered incidents in the skies over Kemerovo at the time involving either crashed craft. One online commentator said: ''It was going down so fast I reckon it was a Russian Rouble.''
While another observed: ''It is certainly too slow to be a meteorite implying it is mechanical in origing.''
One supposed expert pointed out that it was a ''cigar'' UFO due to its long thin shape. These are apparently less widely known than ''saucers''.
The first well-known UFO sighting occurred in 1947, when businessman Keneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while flying his small plane.
Arnold estimated the speed of the crescent-shaped objects as several thousand miles per hour and said they moved ''like saucers skipping on water.''
This is how the term flying saucer was coined as, in the newspaper report that followed, it was mistakenly stated that the objects were saucer-shaped.
9 News Perth:''A mystery flash of light across our skies has sent our WA into a frenzy. Thousand of people from Margaret River to the wheatbelt spotted the fireball as it streaked across the sky this morning. Expert say it was a large and rare meteor and they want help to find it.''
Dozens of people in Perth and WA's South West have reported a bright light in the sky, believed to have been small meteor.
Callers flooded 720 ABC Perth's Morning program on Monday, claiming to have seen the celestial event in locations ranging from Gidgegannup, on Perth's eastern outskirts, to Margaret River in the South West.
Talkback callers described seeing an intense white light flashing across the sky about 9:15 am.
''I was just going over the Mount Henry Bridge[in Perth]...and there was this silver, sort of shooting thing that came down and just vaporised in a burst over the river'', caller Gillian said.
Hilary was driving on the South West Highway near Binningup when she saw the object.
''A silver thing flashed at an angle - not like it was gravity, but going as though it was propelled into the ground'', she said.
ABC gardening expert Sabrina Hahn said she thought someone had been letting off fireworks.
''It was a really, really intense bright light. It was incredible because it was such an intense light'', she said.
Meteors rarely visible in daylight, academic says
Curtin University planetary scientist Phil Bland said it was likely to have been a meteor.
''What these things typically are is a chunk of rock entering our atmosphere'', he said.
''A meteorite is an extra-terrestrial material on the earth's surface, so if it lands on earth it's a meteorite.''
Professor Bland said the university would love to get hold of the meteorite.
''Meteorites contain an amazing record of the early solar system formation, so we get a lot of information about how planets came from'', he said.
