It was seen by hundreds of people – some filmed it on their phones.
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In a statement, Lieutenant Colonel Martin O’ Donnell, spokesman for the U.S. Strategic Command, said, the Joint Space Operation Center had been tracking the rocket body along with 16,000 other objects.
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The bright light, according to military authorities, was not a meteor or UFO as some had speculated, but space junk or debris from a Russian rocket re-entering the atmosphere.
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Newfoundlanders in Canada took to social media last week to report another “mysterious fireball” streaking across the sky. The rocket was launched December 21.
“I was kind of freaked out to see something like that blowing up in the air and you don’t know what it is”, said Gunnar Lindstrom, who saw the streak of light as he exited a vehicle at his Las Vegas apartment complex and initially believed it was an airplane.
A mystery light was seen across the San Diego night sky on November 7. “This was so unusual it was bright enough to light up the night sky”. The missile was not armed, and the test was part of a scheduled, on-going system evaluation by the Navy Strategic Systems Programs. The rocket delivered into orbit the latest modification of Russian cargo spacecraft, Progress-MS-01 (first unit), with almost 2.5 tons of supplies, including food, fuel and compressed oxygen, for the expedition aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
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“It makes sense that people are skeptical”, Thoburn said.
