Fireball sightings in Colorado caused by SpaceX debris re-entry.
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The "trunk" section of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, used to launch the NASA Crew-5 astronaut mission to the International Space Station in October 2022, made a dramatic but harmless re-entry over the western United States late Thursday. The re-entry breakup was widely seen and confirmed by SpaceX and an astronomer. Anyone who comes across debris is asked to report it to SpaceX immediately and not to touch it.
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