SEATTLE — Many Puget Sound residents were left puzzled by lights streaking across the night sky Tuesday.
The Seattle Times reports that calls flooded newsrooms across the region as people spotted the unidentified lights.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it wasn’t a plane. The National Weather Service says it wasn’t weather related.
Marius Strom, president of the Seattle Astronomical Society, checked online and said several bright objects — two former Soviet rockets and a military satellite — made passes Monday night at 6:55, 7:15 and 7:50 p.m.
He didn’t think the bright objects were meteors, which are certainly fast but not terribly bright.
The Leonid meteor shower was expected to peak Thursday night.
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