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Did you see the bright light in the sky?

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(Dec 20, 2018 04:18 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: Mysterious Light Appears In the Sky After Rocket Launch Canceled At Vandenberg Air Force Base

The mysterious light created a lot of buzz around Northern California Wednesday. The National Weather Service Bay Area is calling this a noctilucent cloud, a cloud that can be formed from a meteor or space debris entering the upper atmosphere.

Still not 100% certain, but evidence is growing that the object seen was a meteor.

Hi SS. No I didn't see it, even though I was out on the road at the time. But I was headed south on my way home and it happened behind me.

But despite my being oblivious, it was seen all over. From way south near Santa Barbara, from Reno, from Sacramento and from all over the Bay Area.

When I first heard about it, I was a little concerned because a Soyuz capsule was on its way back with three astronauts from the Space Station at the same time. So I worried that maybe they had all burned up. But it seems that the astronauts are all safely on the ground in the Kazakhstan desert where Russian space capsules land:

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/107...9259755520

https://twitter.com/Rogozin/status/1075665715716329472

Yeah, everyone today is saying that our mystery object (quiet down MR!) was a meteor. Of course that's unconfirmed and nobody really knows for sure what it was. Or maybe NORAD knows. They should be able to tell what trajectory it was on and where it seemed to have come from.

But I'm willing to say that it probably was a meteor.
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