What was that streak of light across the Hawaiian sky on August 30? Several news agencies reported they received messages from people about what they assumed was a meteor shower at about 11 pm. It wasn’t a meteor, though, according to local media. It was a Russian payload — Cosmos 1315 launched in 1981 — re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
This video shows the space debris flying across the sky. Credit: YouTube/Joseph Harmon