[Texas resident]

When Columbia blew up, I was at a Lowes’ in Conroe Tx. I heard the boom and saw sparkling debris moving across the sky.
The next week, I went to see some customers in Lufkin and Nacogdoches. I have never seen so many black Tahoe’s and Crown Vic’s in one place before. They were all over the place there in East Texas.

[spankalib]

...saw sparkling debris moving across the sky.

That's exactly what it looked like: "sparkling debris"...