MONKTON FIREBALL

'Fireball' seen in CT sky on Valentine’s Day was rocket, AMS says

By Joseph Tucci, ctinsider.com

A rocket launched by the United States Space Force was recorded flying in the skies of Maryland, according to the American Meteor Society.

Mike Hankey / contributed

Love was flowing through the air in Connecticut on Valentine’s Day and so was a rocket, according to the American Meteor Society.

On Wednesday, the AMS received five reports of a "fireball" in a similar time frame from users in Hamden, Plymouth and Walpole, Mass., Branchburg, N.J. and Wilmington, N.C. The report made by a user in Hamden included a photo of a glowing, long object in the sky and noted it had "multiple arc like bursts." On the same night, an AMS camera in Monkton, Md., captured footage of a moving, round and glowing object FINISH READING HERE

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