Multiple cameras picked up a massive flash of light over Ukraine last night with no clear explanation as to what it was.
The dazzling glow appeared over Kyiv at 22:00 activating air raid sirens despite there being no “air defense in operation,” according to the head of the city’s military administration Sergiy Popko.
The Ukrainian air force says that the flash came from either a satellite or meteorite — something NASA quickly rebutted. The space agency had announced earlier in the week that a retired 600-pound satellite would reenter Earth’s atmosphere but scientists confirmed that the spacecraft was still in orbit at the time of the flash over Kyiv.
“However, that reentry has not yet occurred … No other Nasa satellite reentered the atmosphere earlier today,” a NASA spokesperson told AFP.
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