If you looked up at the sky tonight, you likely have seen some lights in the sky.What is it? What could it be? Who knows, but it sure has caused a lot of fuss online, with people speculating what it could be.Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, took to Twitter to explain what the objects might be. He said the objects are a Japanese communications package called ICS-EF, which he said was launched to the International Space Station in 2009.McDowell explained that the object, cataloged as object 45265, orbited the Earth as space junk for 3 years and reentered over California at 9:30 p.m.If we find out what it is, we’ll be sure to update this page. For now, if you took pictures or videos of those glowing lights, we’d like to see them.Callers from all across the Northern California and Bay Area regions have called our newsroom saying they have seen the lights.Email those pictures/videos to news@kcra.com to grant us permission to use them for on-air and online purposes.
If you looked up at the sky tonight, you likely have seen some lights in the sky.
What is it? What could it be? Who knows, but it sure has caused a lot of fuss online, with people speculating what it could be.
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, took to Twitter to explain what the objects might be. He said the objects are a Japanese communications package called ICS-EF, which he said was launched to the International Space Station in 2009.
McDowell explained that the object, cataloged as object 45265, orbited the Earth as space junk for 3 years and reentered over California at 9:30 p.m.
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If we find out what it is, we’ll be sure to update this page. For now, if you took pictures or videos of those glowing lights, we’d like to see them.
Callers from all across the Northern California and Bay Area regions have called our newsroom saying they have seen the lights.
Email those pictures/videos to news@kcra.com to grant us permission to use them for on-air and online purposes.
