Tuesday night thousands of people witnessed a huge fireball shooting across the sky in the western hemisphere.
It made no sound and was much larger than a shooting star which is a meteor hitting Earths atmosphere. It turns out that it wasn’t some kind of ET ship and don’t worry kids it wasn’t Santa’s sleigh it was in fact a piece of a Russian SL-4 rocket body that had fallen from orbit.
“This was an object that we were tracking and we knew was going to come and reenter the atmosphere,” said Maj. Matt Miller, a spokesman for U.S. Strategic Command.
These types of objects falling back to Earth are very common, but usually not of this size. That’s why it was seen by so many unlike the smaller ones that fall throughout the year.
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