GREAT FALLS — The annual Perseids meteor shower peaked Tuesday night, but stargazers had the chance to see another incredible display in the sky early Wednesday morning around 5:15-5:20 a.m.

Bright streaks resembling a shooting star moved from west to east across the night sky, but this was not actually related to the meteor shower. It was space junk re-entering and burning up.

Several people shared videos with us - watch: Space debris lights up the night sky across Montana

It could have been a satellite, perhaps an old Starlink. A couple of re-entries occur nearly every day somewhere on Earth, so this is not uncommon.

According to SpaceX, "Starlink satellites operate in a low Earth orbit below 600 km altitude. Atmospheric drag at these altitudes will deorbit a satellite naturally

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