People shared video and photo of the mystery light and talked about it in the social media. “We had a meteor shower a week and a half ago, the Geminid meteor shower”.
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Americans took to Twitter Tuesday night to have a minor freakout over a mysterious fireball that streaked across the sky.
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The light spotted in and around Las Vegas was reportedly seen as far away as Bakersfield and Sacramento in California. Others wondered if it was a meteor breaking up on re-entry or space debris from a fallen satellite. They say they rocket’s body likely detached from the craft bringing materials into space and burned up as it started to go out of orbit.
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But U.S. Strategic Command put the conjecture to rest when it announced the light was caused by a Russian SL-4 rocket re-entering the atmosphere over Arizona about 7:08 p.m. MT.
According to Strategic Command, the rocket was launched on Monday.
The light was seen streaking across the sky before it appeared to break up.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base confirmed there were no scheduled operations Tuesday night, said Larry Hill, chief of communications. The Trident II (D5) missile was not armed, the Navy said.
