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Fireball lights up West Coast night sky (pic)

July 28, 2016 By: Stephen Dietrich

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A Chinese rocket re-entered the atmosphere near California late Wednesday night around the same time many people shared video on social media of a mysterious bright object streaking across the night sky.

U.S. Strategic Command spokeswoman Julie Ziegenhorn wouldn’t say if the rocket ever posed danger to people on the ground. She says the command often sees re-entries.

Ziegenhorn tells The Associated Press the Chinese CZ-7 rocket re-entered the atmosphere around 11:36 p.m. Central time. That’s about the same time social media lit up with reports from Nevada, Utah and California of a small fireball streaking across the sky.

Ziegenhorn referred all other questions about the rocket to Chinese authorities

Officials from Nellis Air Force Base in southern Nevada had earlier told KTNV-TV the light was a meteor breaking up.

The Associated Press contributed to this article. 

About the Author

Stephen Dietrich

Stephen is a U.S. Army veteran with over a decade of combined experience in political commentary, economics, and news.

Comments

  1. joe says

    July 28, 2016 at 11:25 am

    MORE BULLSHIT COVERUP…JUST LIKE ROSWELL…WEATHER BALLOON MADE FROM METAL U CANT BURN, BEND, OR CUT…MY ASS IS A WEATHER BALLOON..IT GETS FULL OF GAS AND I RELEASE IT IN THE AIR..

  2. Re says

    July 28, 2016 at 11:29 am

    Why is the air forces so quick to put out bad info. Is this the statoe of our military that they do not even know what is coming our way..what happened to our eye in the sky program. Is Obama at fault here ..?

    • drbhelthi says

      July 28, 2016 at 11:42 am

      The shadow government of the US and Western World is at fault, and the alias, Barrak Hussein Obama, is a puppet who is cooperating with the shadow government.

      • fred smith says

        July 28, 2016 at 1:12 pm

        Thank God no nuclear bomb wasn’t attached to the spent rocket (if that indeed is what it was). Seems to me it would’ve made good target practice for our anti missile defense that’s SHOULD be always on alert and proactive to anything streaking through our airspace. I say let’s Trump it out of the way so no harm will ever befall our once glorious nation.

        • Michael Morrow says

          July 29, 2016 at 4:24 pm

          How do you know that we didn’t use our anti-missile defense.

  3. Joy says

    July 28, 2016 at 11:57 pm

    Will someone explain why these old people who are no doubt getting dementia trying to run our country. Old lady Clinton and that old east coast man. Sorry don’t have a clue of
    Trumps age. To be sure he is over 55. Federal employees have mandated retirement but the most important employees of the federal government gets a pass and can collect from tax payers as long as people are foolish enough to vote for them. Then you have the liars and the ones with blood on their hands as well as old enough to qualify as antiques. Wow. Doesn’t say much for us does it. Really listen to them. Then say they don’t have dementia. To do justice trump tries to keep it clean but can’t say that about old lady Clinton. She even lies about crap that she had no hand in doing and thinks we are too stupid to know better.

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