Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird - it's a plane! It's... a chinese pile of junk...

Residents in the southeastern US saw a beam of orange light travelling over their homes (pictured) as a Chinese satellite burned up and re-entered Earth's atmosphere. The fireballs, which scientists have identified as Beijing's SuperView-1 02, (inset, file photo) were spotted soaring through the sky over Bryant, Arkansas around 10pm Sunday. The American Meteor Society received at least 120 reports of sightings across Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Missouri after the satellite exploded.