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Rocket captured on video lights up sky Thursday night

A rocket flew over the sky Thursday night. (Courtesy/ Angela Hendrick)

Salem residents who looked to the sky Thursday night around 9 p.m. saw debris from a Falcon 9 rocket that didn’t have a successful deorbit burn, according to the National Weather Service in Seattle.

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In Salem and across the Pacific Northwest, people took to social media posting photos and video of the lights, which many said resembled a meteor shower.

The Salem Police Department tweeted about the rocket Thursday night with photos and video of the rocket moving across the sky.

“Yes, #salemoregon. We saw it too!” the department tweeted. 

-Saphara Harrell

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