Fireball in Sky Was Russian Space Junk

But all flights of fancy were quickly shot down by U.S. military officials who said the fireball seen over Arizona, Nevada and California on Tuesday night was debris from a Russian rocket re-entering the atmosphere.

The SL-4 rocket was launched by Russian Federation on Monday, Strategic Command said. Earlier reports from the Griffith Observatory stated it could have been a meteor or space debris.

Some speculated that it was a meteor, while others resorted to humor, punctuating their comments by using a rocket emoji and saying the light across the sky looked Santa’s sleigh.

“Based on tracking information and the object’s identification number, this space debris was the second stage of the rocket that launched the latest crew members to the International Space Station, on Tuesday, December 15”.

A woman from OR accused of intentionally plowing her vehicle with her 3-year-old daughter in the back seat through crowds of pedestrians on a Las Vegas Strip sidewalk faces a judge Wednesday on felony murder, … “I was upset I couldn’t grab my real camera”, Lindstrom said.

Thanks Walter Castro for sending us your video of that streak that was seen in Kern County tonight. He referred other inquiries to the Russian Federal Space Agency.