- There is no correlation between the flash of light seen
and sonic boom heard Friday night and the collision last Tuesday of two
orbital satellites, said Regina Winchester, a public affairs officer at
the United States Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha,
Neb.
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- "We are not tracking any other re-entry. It was
apparently an astral event," she explained.
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- Just after 10 p.m. Friday, reports came from Kentucky
counties along I-75 from the Tennessee border to about 1-64 and as far
east as Morehead, of blue-green lights in the sky and a sound like an explosion.
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- The phenomena were first reported by a Federal Aviation
Administration Notice To Airmen (NOTAM) warning pilots to be on guard for
debris from the collision of a Russian and a U.S. satellite on Tuesday.
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- The NOTAM was later retracted.
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- Friday's Kentucky incident of bright lights and sonic
booms was followed by a Saturday morning report of similar activity in
Texas.
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- There were no reports of ground strikes of any falling
debris.
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- At about 11 a.m. (CST) Saturday, reports came from Plano
to Austin of a red-orange light streaking across the Texas sky accompanied
by "explosions," probably sonic booms, reported the Waco, Star-Telegram.
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- Among the astronomical community, the explanation of
the phenomena in both Kentucky and Texas was that they were probably caused
by meteors entering the atmosphere.
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