Unexplained Light Streaks Illuminate California Sky.

Mysterious streaks of light seen in the sky over California were caused by burning space debris from a Japanese communications package that was jettisoned from the International Space Station in 2020. An astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics estimated the debris was about 40 miles high, going thousands of miles per hour. The U.S. Space Force confirmed the re-entry path over California for the Inter-Orbit Communication System.