Flashes of light seen across the sky over south-eastern Australia on Monday night were likely to have been remnants of a Russian rocket, the country's space agency said.
SYDNEY, Australia - Flashes of light seen across the sky over south-eastern Australia on Monday night were likely to have been remnants of a Russian rocket, the country's space agency said.
But the Australian Space Agency said it was more likely to have been a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. "This launch was notified and remnants of the rocket were planned to safely re-enter the atmosphere into the ocean off the south-east coast of Tasmania.
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