A section of Garissa residents on Tuesday night reported seeing a brightly lit body shooting across their skies at around 7.40pm, with others claiming they heard a loud rumbling sound from above.
The incident attracted many opinions with the religious classes disclosing that it was one of the biblical signs of end of times.
One of the residents who confessed seeing the 'heavenly star' narrates that the fast moving object lit the skies making it look like early morning when the sun is just rising.
“The night was pitch black and within no time a sudden flash as that of light switch went on in the sky, everywhere became bright like early morning because the whole was sky lit up,” said one the locals.
The residents, however, ruled out the possibility that the incident was lightning saying the skies were clear with no thunder storms that were recorded, thus nullifying any weather-related explanation.
With limited professional explanations on the rare happening, many of the locals still describe the event as beyond human explanation.