Environment
A Falling Russian Spacecraft Flames Out Over Hawaii
Witnesses describe the sight as “epic” and “jaw dropping.”
Late Sunday night, Hawaiians were treated to the cosmos vomiting out a great stream of fire. In two-dozen reports to the American Meteor Society, witnesses called it “jaw dropping,” “fragmented like fireworks,” “so close” and “so bright.” Wrote one:
What appeared to be a flock of meteors had a terrestrial explanation. It was likely a creaky Russian spacecraft launched in the 1980s, ending its life in a fiery plunge through the earth’s atmosphere.