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 Meteor Burns Through Southland Sky
 Nothing Hits Ground During Light Show
 
 POSTED: 6:06 a.m. PDT September 5, 2003
 UPDATED: 7:43 a.m. PDT September 5, 2003
 
 LOS ANGELES -- Bright flashes in the California sky Thursday evening were likely a small meteor or debris from space burning up in the earth's atmosphere, authorities said.
 
 Nothing hit the ground but the clear sky over parts of the state made for a spectacular light show, said Sheryl Tankersley, a spokeswoman for the state Office of Emergency Services.
 
 Bluish white lights reportedly moving west to northeast were seen at 8:24 p.m. in Palm Springs and as far north as Napa, Amador and Merced counties, according to witnesses and the OES.
 
 A brief North American Aerospace Defense Command investigation concluded that the lights were a small asteroid or space debris. Vandenberg Air Force Base reported it had not tested missiles or made any other launch Thursday night.
 
 A local weathercaster in Palm Springs, called the light 'extremely bright.'
 
 "I was looking at it and going 'Mars isn't over there, what is that?"'
 
 "We had dust storms overhead, you couldn't see much at all in the sky," she said. "But this was as clear and bright as anything."
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