What was that??
At approximately 9:30pm Pacific Standard Time, people across the Western U.S. from Utah to Nevada to California began to report seeing a large configuration of unexplained lights moving across the sky.
Full video of meteor-like event @BadAstronomer pic.twitter.com/q37UzRZKpa
— Matt Holt (@mholt6) July 28, 2016
Getting reports of a wide procession of lights in the sky from the West to East at 9:38 PST. Seen in CA, UT, NV. Please send vid or info.
— Ben Hansen (@BenHansen00) July 28, 2016
Just spoke to Peter @NUFORC National UFO Reporting Center. They're inundated with calls. Appears like the whole Western U.S. is seeing it.
— Ben Hansen (@BenHansen00) July 28, 2016
Huge asteroid shooting star thing entering atmosphere over Vegas. July 27th 2016 9:40 p.m. pic.twitter.com/djdR3Xu6En
— Trevor Kerr (@AdmiralTrevMan) July 28, 2016
Definitely just saw a UFO
— Daniel sahyounie (@danielsahyounie) July 28, 2016
Just saw a crazy meteor/comet/rocket/ufo flying across the night sky here in Santa Rosa. Pretty interesting. #IWantToBelieve
— Manzanita Falls (@ManzanitaFalls) July 28, 2016
Definitely a #UFO!!! pic.twitter.com/eB2mlnyrSh
— JoJo Wright (@JoJoWright) July 28, 2016
Did u see the same thing as me? It wasn't what I'm seeing in these videos. This was huge with literally 1000 orange lights. #ufo
— Drew Ryan Scott (@drewryanscott) July 28, 2016
Dear UFO… We come in peace 🖖🏻👽 pic.twitter.com/kVN7Ti9gqv
— Jadon Chism (@Jchism12) July 28, 2016
Some tried to offer less Alien-y explanations:
No, you didn't see a #ufo. It was part of the #deltaaquarids meteor showers. We'll have video on #ktla News At 10pm.
— Todd Griffithe (@ToddKTLA) July 28, 2016
Some folks incorrectly saying this was a Delta Aquariid meteor. Way too slow. Definitely space junk. https://t.co/gDwRePvoqg
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) July 28, 2016
Dear national weather service, I don't believe these Aliens like to be referred as "Space Junk" #UFO #SanJose
— Gregory Manly (@twitrlessgreg) July 28, 2016
Uh huh suree "space junk" #ufo lol https://t.co/HKl6MuicZq
— Alexis (@LexieGirl15) July 28, 2016
What you saw shoot across sky, not #meteor not #ufo , confirmed to be space junk from a Chinese rocket body CZ-7 https://t.co/zKLMoTek3p
— Deanna (@DobutsuSatori) July 28, 2016
Hmmm… Did you see it? What do you think was streaking across the skies?
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