Streaks of light were space junk, planetarium director believes
Southeast Wisconsin was glowing and buzzing Tuesday night as the skies lit up across the Great Lakes region with fiery streaks. Some spectators thought it might be a performance by Mother Nature, like a meteor shower.
Fiery lights spotted in skies over Wisconsin believed to be ‘space junk’
According to Bob Bonadurer, planetarium director for the Milwaukee Public Museum, space junk is debris from satellites that came off or part of a satellite that’s rubbing against Earth’s atmosphere at about 20 miles a second.
Space junk debris lights up the skies over Michigan and throughout Midwest
Midwest as people in Illinois and Michigan also reported seeing the dazzling display in the sky. Derek Brown of Potterville, Mich. captured video of the falling debris from the front porch of his home.
Fireball seen over West Michigan is identified as space debris
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