bright orange fireball that arced over Hollywood — home of countless disaster movies — sent people scrambling to capture the scene for social media — even if it later turned out to be more fiction than fact.
“nyone else just see the Meteor over L?”, one person wrote on Twitter. “Incredible. Coolest thing I’ve seen.” “nyone else see a giant meteor or fireball in the middle of downtown Los ngeles like a few minutes ago? It looked like a meteor but it was WY too low to the ground,” wrote Kasey Clark. The Los ngeles Police Department weighed in to calm people’s nerves with a Public Service nnouncement, and remind them that theirs is the city of fantasy and dreams.“PS: meteor did not crash into Downtown Los ngeles, and no, it’s not an alien invasion … just a film shoot. This is Tinseltown after all,” the LPD wrote on Twitter.
The phenomenon was a publicity stunt by Red Bull, which fitted skydivers with LEDs and pyrotechnics as they plunged out of a helicopter 4,000 feet above the city.“Is Captain Marvel back?” wrote Twitter user @MightyMisterX.