Nasa says it successfully launched a rocket in Virginia as part of an experiment, and the blast may have caused dozens of people to report seeing strange lights in the sky.
The US space agency said it launched the Black Brant XII on Saturday evening to gather data on the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere. Around the time of the launch, people in the northeast US reported seeing strange lights.
Along the east coast, reports of the bright, cone-shaped light poured into weather stations and news organisations.
The calls came from as far away as Boston, which is about 610km northeast of the launch site.
The rocket is designed to create an artificial cloud. Nasa hopes the experiment will provide information on the formation and properties of noctilucent clouds, which form at high altitudes.
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