Phoenix UFO Seen Friday Night Actually SpaceX Rocket

PHOENIX, AZ – Technically, it was a UFO – an unidentified flying object. It was flying. It was an object. And, for a while, it was definitely unidentified. In the end, though, it was most definitely not an alien spacecraft.

We may not be alone but we did not get any interstellar videos on Friday.

For a while, there was a lot of debate in Arizona about what was it that was seen streaking across the sky sometime after 6 p.m..

In the end, it wasn't something coming from space, it was something headed there.

NASA let everyone know that it was a SpaceX rocket that had been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, about 500 miles from Phoenix.

SpaceX is a private space exploration company founded by Elon Musk who also started Tesla.

Musk tweeted a video of the rocket, joking that it was a "Nuclear alien UFO from North Korea."

SpaceX says the rocket carried a NASA spacecraft along with a set of 10 satellites that are part of a 75-satellite grouping that will assist mobile voice and data satellite communications.

Photo courtesy SpaceX