A display of lights thought to be a “meteor shower” was actually the wreckage of a Chinese Long March rocket falling out of orbit, Australia’s ABC reported on its website.
Streaks of light lit up the skies over Broome, in the northwest of Western Australia in the early hours of Monday morning, while sonic booms from the disintegrating rocket reverberated around the town, the public broadcaster said.
Read the full report: The ABC.
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