{"id":147578,"date":"2025-08-15T10:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147578\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T10:33:10","slug":"unusual-lights-in-the-sky-wednesday-night-attributed-to-rocket-thruster-reentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/147578\/","title":{"rendered":"Unusual lights in the sky Wednesday night attributed to rocket thruster reentry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EUGENE, Ore. \u2014 The moon and stars were not the only thing in the sky on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Many viewers sent in video that looked like a meteor shower.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t that, either.<\/p>\n<p>So what was this fire in the sky?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It looked like the reentry process of the rocket\u2019s thrusters,\u201d explains Kevin Davis, Eugene Science Center\u2019s Planetarium Manager. \u201cThey break apart in the upper atmosphere and you\u2019re seeing the debris burning up as it builds up a lot of heat and friction. You can get occasional meteors that will look like that, but you won\u2019t see the big clusters like that unless it\u2019s a pretty significant event &#8211; and if it was, that would be interesting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See our full interview below for the full explanation:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EUGENE, Ore. \u2014 The moon and stars were not the only thing in the sky on Wednesday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":147579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[34641,31080,8144,16925,87063,1434,159,4540,783,87064,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-147578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-atmosphere","9":"tag-debris","10":"tag-lights","11":"tag-meteor","12":"tag-reentry","13":"tag-rocket","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-sky","16":"tag-space","17":"tag-thruster","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115032332940547153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147578","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=147578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}