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Starlink satellite falls to Earth, burns up as stunning fireball over US (video)

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Dozens of eyewitnesses reported seeing a meteor on Saturday ( Nov. 9 ) over four U.S. states.

The American Meteor Society received 36 different reports about the bright fireball.

It appears to have been SpaceX's Starlink-4682 spacecraft, part of a group of 54 satellites that launched in 2022 on the Starlink 4-23 mission.