Some speculated that a light competence be a sharpened star from the Geminid meteor showerbegan on Dec. 4
Several aviation and continue officials pronounced a light was not an aircraft, BuzzFeed reported. Ian Gregor, a orator for a Federal Aviation Administration, told a news opening that he had “no idea†what a intent was. McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas also reliable that it was “not a plane
As KTLA-TV noted, a unclear drifting intent gimlet similarities to one speckled in a California sky in November. In that case, a light was from an unarmed exam missileby a U.S. Navy
UPDATE (12/23, 1:15 a.m. ET):the “streaking fireball†was Russian space debris
The light, pronounced Ziegenhorn, was “caused by a Russian SL-4 rocket physique that reentered a atmosphere somewhere above Arizona.â€
The rocket had been launched on Dec. 21.
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