"Mysterious balls of light" appeared in the sky of Sacramento, California, USA on the 17th. Astronomer McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said that these "mysterious balls of light" are burning space junk.

(Associated Press)

[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] On the 17th, a "mysterious ball of light" appeared in the sky of Sacramento, California, USA. It appeared in the sky for more than 40 seconds, causing many witnesses to exclaim.

Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said he was 99.9 percent certain that the "mystery photospheres" were burning space junk.

According to the "Associated Press" report, some people participated in the celebration of St. Patrick's Day at a winery in Sacramento on the evening of the 17th. While everyone was drinking, several mysterious light balls suddenly appeared in the night sky. Witnesses "We've never seen this, it's shocking," said Jaime Hernandez, who also photographed the scene at the time.

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McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said he thinks the photospheres come from burning space junk.

McDowell mentioned that Japan's previous communication equipment was thrown into space by the International Space Station in 2020, because the communication equipment weighing 310 kilograms was outdated and took up valuable space on the space station. will burn out.

McDowell pointed out that the continuous burning of communication equipment as it passed through the atmosphere also happened to create a spectacular "light show" in the sky. The space junk is estimated to be 64 kilometers high and travel at thousands of kilometers per hour.

McDowell also mentioned that the U.S. Space Force has confirmed the flight path of the inter-orbit communication system over California, and the time coincides with the time when people saw it.