Light in the sky
September 19th, 2009 at 10:08 pm by T.J. Del Santo under General Talk, Weather and Science
We’ve had many reports from viewers across our area of a very bright light in the sky. One viewer described it as if fuel was being burned. We heard of reports from New Hampshire as well.
It wasn’t a UFO. It was NASA. There is a launch site on Wallops Island, Virginia. They launched a rocket this evening (around 7:46pm), and it passed over our skies.
Here are the Wallops Island tweets on Twitter: Wallops Island on Twitter
Here’s the video of the actual launch from “ChrisAstro” on YouTube. You can see the stages separate in the video: Rocket launch
Here’s the NASA web site describing the mission (which is actually weather related): NASA
I hope this clears things up for you. If you have pictures or video send it our way… weather@wpri.com
-T.J. Del Santo
T. J. – thank you for the explanation. I thought my husband was nuts when he told be about the ‘bright light’ in the sky! I now have to admit he was right.
Hahaha….yes, husbands ARE right sometimes. I tell my wife that all the time. I just wish I had seen this myself.
This is really funny I am based in England and me and my friends and husband saw this as well. How can this be possible if NASA is in Amercia?????