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@StudChud @calhoon2005 I'm going to bet it was a Starlink satellite, based on this:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/space-news-starlink-satellites-orbit-pink-moon-richard-branson-nasa-165913306.html
Might be able to verify if people using Starlink lost internet...
A comment on the r/ thread suggests it's a stage from a Russian launch.
@calhoon2005
my conjecture is based also on the fact that's been a peak in solar activity, a, G1-G2 level event:
https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Geophysical/2/1
which has potential to knock out satellites unintentionally, as opposed to expected launch stages, though the path for that seems to make potential sense too.
Most unintended re-entries of Starlink seem to be more dramatic with disintegration, so a different kind of item eg Russian, might well make sense, but here's a confirmed Starlink satellite entering over Puerto Rico, for comparison:
https://youtu.be/a7KUSN89-A0
Anyone else here old enough to remember Skylab??