A surprised red light in the sky and NASA came out to explain

In this way, the sighting was recorded by residents of the metropolitan area of ​​Puerto Rico and in several towns on the island. From Naranjito the luminous object could be enjoyed for about 15 minutes and then he disappeared, the people northwest of San Juan Bay also made the sighting.

Faced with so much uncertainty, NASA immediately reported the origin of the striking “red flash” in the sky, to restore calm to citizens. According to what they explained it is the steam that launched a rocket, launched by the Department of Defense from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, United States.

A three-stage suborbital sounding rocket was launched on March 3 with the aim of studying ionization in space beyond the limits of Earth’s atmosphere. After flying at an altitude of several hundred miles, and about 500 miles from the coast, the rocket released a small amount of vapor into the near vacuum of space.

Since March 1, NASA had reported that this could happen, announced that when the rocket reached a height of several thousand kilometers, it would release a small amount of vapor, and as a result, several colored clouds could appear above. of the ocean, residents of the mid-Atlantic and southeastern United States, as the sun illuminates the vapor before it diffuses into space.