Southern California residents noticed bright lights streaking across the sky early Tuesday morning.
It was spotted around 1:30 a.m. Residents called into KNX News from all over Southern California saying they spotted it from Anaheim, Boyle Heights, and even Victorville.
The FAA said they have no reports of unusual aircraft activity in the area, and after a day filled with questions we finally have an answer.
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The space junk tracking service Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies (CORDS) tells KNX News in a statement: Based on tracking data from the USSF 18th Space Defense Squadron, our analysis suggests that the object seen reentering over Los Angeles this morning was the orbital module from the November 2022 Chinese Shenzhou-15 launch to their space station. The module had a mass of approximately 1500kg, which is large enough to create visible debris as it reentered. The timing and location where the debris was observed are consistent with predictions of the objects orbit.
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