Video: Mysterious Streaks Of Light Spotted In Night Sky Over California. Here's What It Is
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Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, explained that the lights were in fact space junk burning up as it reentered the Earth's atmosphere.
Mysterious streaks of light were spotted in the night sky in California's Sacramento area on Friday. Videos and images of the surprising sight were posted on social media by witnesses, including from St. Patrick's Day revellers at the King Kong Brewing Company in Sacramento. This is ICS-EF, a Japanese communications package for sending data between the ISS Kibo module and Mission Control Tsukuba via the Kodama data relay satellite. It was launched to the ISS on the Space Shuttle in 2009 and had a mass of 310 kg. pic.twitter.com/ygzHdmfQc0
Taking to Instagram, the official page of King Kong Brewing Company posted a video of the mysterious sighting. "Crazy Fireworks. This flew over the brewery tonight. What do you guys think?" the caption of the post read.
Watch the video below:
