{"id":44879,"date":"2025-11-13T06:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44879\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:42:15","slug":"meteorologists-say-viral-video-capturing-streak-in-the-skies-over-florida-is-likely-space-junk-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44879\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteorologists say viral video capturing streak in the skies over Florida is likely space junk &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTH PORT, FLA. (WSVN) \u2014 Several videos posted across social media captured something streaking through the skies over Florida. 7News\u2019 meteorologists say it\u2019s likely just some space junk.<\/p>\n<p>Flashes of the object could be seen streaking across the sky in North Port, just north of Fort Myers, at around 12:30 p.m., Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Several residents online reported seeing it around Southwest Florida to as far north as Jacksonville, all of them wondering what it could be.<\/p>\n<p>7News\u2019 meteorologists say the likely explanation is that it was a meteor, or a piece of debris or space junk burning up as it approached Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Another streak in the sky was also seen near Jacksonville over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Reports for that say it was also likely just space junk.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH PORT, FLA. (WSVN) \u2014 Several videos posted across social media captured something streaking through the skies over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-44879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}