Posted on 04/04/2024 5:17:42 PM PDT by Libloather
Californians received a shock in the early hours of Tuesday morning when golden streaks from an apparent explosion appeared over Los Angeles . Locals had believed it was the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched six hours prior or a giant meteor that combusted as it shot through Earth's atmosphere. Aerospace researchers have determined that the fiery object was the orbital object of China 's Shenzhou-15 rocket that launched in 2022.
The China-owned space junk comes just months after the nation infiltrated the US by flying a spy balloon over an Air Force base in Montana . The 3,300-pound orbital module, a secondary piece of the rocket, was not designed to safely reenter Earth's atmosphere and was set to circle our planet with the tons of other space junk. Witnesses of the explosion posted videos on social media, showing the object streaking across the sky at around 1:40 a.m. PT, and questioned what it was.
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I assume it missed Newsom...
Communist Chinese spy balloons now crashing Chinese space craft...Hopefully not a bio bomb dusting LA...
A practice dry run for a nuke.
Yep, target practice.
China can’t bring these things down over some remote part of the Pacific Ocean?
That doesn’t say much for their competence.
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