Midwest Meteors Explained
Early last Friday evening a spectacular array of lights crossed the midwestern sky over a five minute period. Their slow movement appeared to rule out meteors, and news media throughout the region were flooded with UFO reports.
Earlier on Friday a trio of Glonass satellites lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakstan aboard a single Russian Proton rocket. The successful launch added three new satellites to the Glonass array and, unintentionally, triggered the Friday night sky show over Texas. Glonass is the Russian global positioning system.
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