And even people in Kansas saw sights in the sky. We received several calls from viewers who say they saw the sky light up last night. 13's Lindsay Shively has more on these sightings. Imagine driving home on the interstate, away from city lights, looking up...and seeing a bright streak of green. We talked to one family who says they did just that and we talked to an expert about what they saw.

It happened in Denver... a long stretch of bright white light, confirmed to be debris from a Russian rocket following this path. And in New Jersey, no one knows what this is that fell out of the sky and through the roof of one of these homes Tuesday. Maybe its just a coincidence, but drivers here in Kansas saw something too. "All i heard was whoa!!" "Oh my god, I can't believe I'm seeing this."

Headed home to Manhattan on eye-70, The Nauerth family says they were near Paxico just before eleven Wednesday evening, when they looked up and saw green. "I saw a great big green fire going from left to right." "It was this big green ball of light that filled up the whole windshield."

And they aren't alone, viewers also called 13 News after they say they spotted a green fireball just north of Highway 56 between Allen and Americus, Kansas. Astronomer Brenda Culbertson says they could have been seeing pieces from the Russian rocket hours before it showed up in Denver skies. "The atmosphere stands pretty far up, so if something is very huge and extremely bright...you can see that same meteor for miles."

And she says debris from space would still be considered a meteor, even though it's man made.
"They say they saw a green fireball in the sky and Culbertson says that's because when an object enters the atmosphere, it emits gases and those gases are what you see glowing green." No one can say for sure if the three events are connected, but these folks will never forget what they saw. The Russian rocket that made the debris folks saw above Denver was used to launch a French satellite in December. And as far as those fireballs spotted by Kansas drivers...they could be pieces of debris from the rocket...but where they landed or even if they hit the ground...that's up in the air.