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Orange fireball lighting Florida sky was Chinese space junk
space trash
Space debris, like the type spotted over Florida Thursday, is expected to increase as more and more satellites and other devices stop working in coming years. (Illustration courtesy NASA)
MIAMI — Conspiracy theorists took to social media in a flurry of excitement Wednesday after a mysterious flying object resembling an orange fireball streaked across the Florida sky.
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