For hours, social media users speculated and commented on photographs of the light that traversed the sky over Ukraine's capital.
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Aflash in the sky of Kiev: for hours, social media users speculated and commented on photographs of a flare that traversed the sky of the Ukrainian capital about 10 p.m. and lighted the sky. The authorities also issued the first air warning in recent days.
The fall of a NASA satellite appeared to explain it, however the US space agency later confirmed that the Rhessi satellite had not yet re-entered the Earth's atmosphere.
Sergiy Popko, the chief of the Ukrainian capital's military administration, had previously wrote on Telegram that the event was caused by the collapse of a NASA space satellite on Earth. Rhessi, in particular, whose re-entry into the atmosphere was due on Wednesday, as NASA stated at the start of the week. However, the space agency later notified, via a spokeswoman, that Rhessi was "still in orbit," and that both NASA and the US Department of Defense were still tracking him.