When shiny, fiery green things explode across the sky while you’re steering down a freeway, that’s anything but you’re typical Saturday night.

Someone who might or might not be Russian had the foresight to install a camera on their dashboard to catch such a happening, as it occurred right in front of their hood while lightly braking/clubbing on some multi-lane road in Southern California recently.

What was it, hm? An unidentified flying object? A leaking airborne satchel of Ecto Cooler? The Incredible Hulk ablaze? The Boston Celtics? Yoda? Caesar salad? Cee Lo?

Sorry to get your hopes up and your minds afire (pun intended) but it wasn’t nothing but a meteor. Which is still pretty cool, just completely explainable by applying the laws of science.

This from Gizmodo:

… the Lyrid meteor shower, which reached its peak last Friday, still has some stragglers hitting the atmosphere.

In this case, it’s worth pointing out a noteworthy characteristic of Lyrids: they tend to create exploding fireballs. Depending on what metals are in the piece of space rock, it can glow all kinds of colors. NASA says that space debris with a green glow are usually full of magnesium. The Griffith observatory additionally confirmed that the this blazing ball was likely a piece of descending space junk.

Never underestimate how much garbage there is in space and orbiting the planet like old sad floating pay phones.