It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s SpaceX rocket debris. Social media lit up Thursday night after the skies above the Pacific Northwest did the same, and it the ominous site has a link to Central Florida. [TRENDING: Teens rescued from slingshot ride | Woman found naked in storm drain says she was there for 3 weeks | Teacher fired for using medical marijuana] The National Weather Service in Seattle tweeted that SpaceX was the source of the crazy sight. “The widely reported bright objects in the sky were debris from a Falcon 9 rocket 2nd stage that did not successfully have a deorbit burn,” the NWS said in a tweet.
As a follow up to the debris observed earlier. Here's some more info on atmospheric re-entry. Typical manmade objects obtain low