The Air Force has ruled out the possibility that a burning Russian rocket booster re-entering the atmosphere was the cause of the bright light in the sky seen recently along the East Coast.
The Joint Space Operations Center, known as "JSPOC," which monitors man-made objects in space, concluded that a Soyuz rocket body that some experts thought was the cause actually came through the atmosphere near the Philippine Sea.
"The JSPOC is not aware of any phenomena that would explain the events near Virginia," Stefan T. Bocchino, a spokesman for the 30th Space Wing, told Inside the Ring.
The Air Force will not say whether a meteor caused the light show and booms Sunday night, viewed and heard by people from southern Virginia through northern Maryland.
"We do not track natural phenomena, so we really can't speculate what it was," Mr. Bocchino said.
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