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Light over Sour Lake, TX

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Around 7:30 pm 10/13/23 my wife and I were driving west on Hwy 105 towards Sour Lake, TX. I saw a really bright light that looked like it was moving south but thought nothing of it other than it reminding me that the eclipse was going to be tomorrow. I grabbed my phone to look up what time it was supposed to be. At that moment my wife asked me what that light was so I stopped looking up the eclipse and was watching the light because it oddly traveled a good distance telling her it wasn't a planet because it was moving and not an airplane because it had no blinking lights. While we were both watching, it seemed to have a blast ring come off of it then just disappeared. It was already dark out so we didn't see a shape only the light and we were driving so no sound was heard. Only the "blast ring" before it disappeared is what really made me go, "WTF?". It was very clear and distinct. I wish I would've thought to catch it on video. Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178861). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Sour Lake, TX

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