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Kyiv's military administration Sergiy Popko said on Telegram that "this phenomenon was the result of a NASA space satellite falling to Earth."..
"The bright flash seen over Kyiv has NOTHING TO DO with the re-entry of NASA's RHESSI satellite, whose orbit doesn't come within thousands of kilometers of Ukraine," astronomer Jonathan McDowell, who is known for tracking objects in the skies and in orbit had tweeted after the video began circulating...
In a statement on Monday, Nasa said it expected most of the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager spacecraft to burn up as it enters the atmosphere...
The spacecraft was tasked with observing solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the Sun from its position in low-Earth orbit...
With the speculation rife, it is largely believed that the bright flash may have been caused by a meteor, which might have burned up above Kyiv as it entered Earth's thick atmosphere..
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