ST. GEORGE, Utah — Several videos and photos have been rolling into FOX 13 Monday night from central and southern Utah showing a weird, unfamiliar object in the sky followed by a streak of light and contrail.
That object was SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket that launched around 8:28 local time from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, California. The rocket was carrying 22 second-generation Starlink internet satellites that were sent into orbit.
According to the SpaceX website, the Falcon 9's first stage successfully came back to Earth around 9 minutes after liftoff, landing on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean.
This was the 26th Falcon launch of the year.
