OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A mysterious object and event was seen in the metro sky Monday night. News 4 has been trying to track down where it came from for hours. It is still a mystery.
“What is that?” a voice can be heard on the TikTok video.
On March 4 at 7:29 p.m., Steve Aragona was outside with his children and neighbors.
“Everybody was playing out front ad my neighbor Kevin says, ‘Steve take a look at this.’ I look up and this white thing appeared in the sky,” said Aragona. “Everybody had their opinions about what it was.”
Video Courtesy Steve Aragona
“It’s a shooting star!” said one of the children.
“No, it’s moving too slow to be a shooting star,” replied an adult.
“Is that a UFO? That’s a UFO,” said another child.
Then, one of the object separates and a big ring of smoke appears in the sky.
“Looks like it’s separating from itself,” said Aragona.
“No! Those are sound waves,” said a child.
News 4 wanted to know what it was. We reached out to OU Aerospace professor Ken Carson.
“It looked like a normal ascent of a rocket with a booster separating staging,” said Carson. “Its a new blast, if you will, of oxidized propellant, coming off the separation of that first stage.”
But, where did it come from?
On March 4, that same day, Space X had a launch in Florida. However, that was at 6:56 p.m. ET, which means it would’ve been 5:56 p.m. CT. An hour and a half before, Aragona shot the video above at 7:29 p.m. CT.
Remember, Aragona also said they saw this in the western part of the sky. If it came from Florida, it would’ve been seen in the east.
News 4 also caught up with local astronomer Wayne Harris-Wyrick, who does not believe it came from the Space X launch, and has his own theories.
“I looked at all the launches of space x and other public announced launches,” said Harris-Wyrick. “My best guess is Vandenberg Space Force Base launched some sort of secret military flight, or whatever is they do.”
Vandenberg Space Force base is in California. We called, but a public affairs representative told us the timing of their launches also don’t match up.
They directed us to another Space Force base in Florida, who said it didn’t belong to them either.
We were eventually directed to Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas. A representative sent the video to an investigator.
We also reached out to Space X in Cape Canaveral, but they did not respond by the time this article was published.
Until we learn the origin, experts want you to keep looking up.
“I’m just glad people are outside looking up at the sky,” said Carson.
