UFO Mania Grips Small Town After Mysterious Glowing Object Sighting Goes Viral

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It started like something out of a sci-fi thriller : a glowing, pill-shaped object hovering over the skies of upstate New York.

Photos captured near the Finger Lakes on Aug. 12 showed a slow-moving orb shrouded in a glowing mist, sparking a surge of UFO speculation in a community's Facebook group.

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But what many believed could be an alien visitation turned out to be something less supernatural: a rocket launch .

According to Space.com , the mysterious orb was later confirmed to be the planned launch of the Vulcan Centaur by the United Launch Alliance from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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⁘My first instinct from my scientific and military training is to look for a conventional explanation, such as a meteorological or human-made aerospace explanation, because that's what many objects in the sky are,⁘ retired Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet , Ph.D., U.S. Navy, told Fox News Digital. ⁘In this case, it was both.⁘

He emphasized the critical nature of data verification when distinguishing between civilian misidentifications and genuinely Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

⁘The primary protocols are to cross-check the visual sighting with other data: higher-resolution optical or infrared, radar, lidar, listen for a radio or acoustic signature, and if it looks to be under intelligent control, interrogate it via VHF radio.

That will allow for a better characterization of the object, e.g. size, speed, altitude, range, material composition, and intentions.⁘

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