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Upstate New York residents were perplexed by a glowing ethereal light that appeared in the sky on Tuesday night, according to reports.<\/p>\n
The light \u2014 a bright white with a pill-shaped center surrounded by a misty aura \u2014 left witnesses awestruck and questioning whether they were witnessing a man made, natural, or extraterrestrial phenomenon, the Times Union reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n The light appeared in a strange shape and joined at the middle in a pill-shape. facebook\/jeannine.beveridge.1<\/p>\n \u201cIn the Northern sky, opposite the moon\u2026 Not a meteor, planets or Starlink and Yes it was moving but silent,\u201d one Facebook user posted alongside an image Tuesday night, adding, \u201cFinger Lakes Region of NY State (Cayuga and Seneca Lakes location)\u201d<\/p>\n Another wrote: \u201csoooo what UFO did i see tonight?? did anyone else see this outside around 9:30pm? It was INSANE.\u201d<\/p>\n And a third Facebook user commented, \u201cWho seen this?!?! UFO in Saxonburg?\u201d<\/p>\n In fact, the light was the tail and plume of a Vulcan Centaur rocket launched from Cape Canaveral by the United Launch Alliance, according to Space.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n The image of the light that freaked out many upstate New Yorkers. facebook\/shane.copegog<\/p>\n Vulcan took off with four side-mounted solid rocket boosters and successfully sent its 3 million-pound payload into geosynchronous orbit, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n The launch sent an experimental navigation satellite on behalf of the US Space Force to orbit Earth, according to ULA.<\/p>\n Tuesday\u2019s Vulcan launch in Cape Canaveral. Jennifer Briggs\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n \u201cThe Air Force Research Laboratory\u2019s NTS-3 satellite will test critical technologies designed to defeat the 21st century threats that contested, degraded and denied position, navigation and timing poses to our national security,\u201d the company said in a release<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tuesday\u2019s launch was one of the longest treks the company has ever executed, taking over seven hours to execute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UF-No. Upstate New York residents were perplexed by a glowing ethereal light that appeared in the sky on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,41518,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,26898,67,586,132,5230,8073,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-143468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-finger-lakes","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-ufos","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-upstate-new-york","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115023764747755583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}