Turns out the series of bright lights people saw streaking across the night sky on Wednesday came from a Chinese rocket that had reentered the atmosphere over California.
U.S. Strategic Command "removed a Chinese CZ-7 rocket body from the U.S. satellite catalog as a decayed object after it reentered the atmosphere July 28, 2016, over North America," spokesperson Maj. Matthew Miller told BuzzFeed News.
The removal took place around 11:36 CT and was in the vicinity of California, though people as far away as Colorado saw the bright lights it left in its path.
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The rocket belongs to the Chinese National Space Administration, Miller said.
A lot of people wanted to know what caused the display.
Some people screamed UFO immediately.
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Others thought it was probably a meteor.
Or maybe a special space phenomenon.
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