Raw Video: Object Lights Up Sky Over Southwestern USA [Dec 23rd 2015]

Residents from across California and as far away as Las Vegas reported seeing a bright light in the sky Tuesday evening that an astronomer first called a “meteor“ and a government official later clarified was sort of Russian space debris. U.S. Strategic Command’s Lt. Colonel O’Donnell confirmed with NBC News that the mysterious light in the sky was some kind of “Russian space debris.“Vanenberg Air Force Base in California was tracking a Russian SL4 rocket body. The body reentered the atmosphere somewhere