A SpaceX Rocket Launch in California Freaked Everyone Out

A mysterious bright object streaked across the Southern California sky Friday night, and folks started to immediately — and rightly — freak out because of recent talk of a secret Pentagon UFO program and nuclear heightened tensions with North Korea. Turns out there's a much more simple answer. That streak cutting across the sky was yet another launch from SpaceX, which launched a rocket from Vanderberg Air Force Base on the California coast.