[Wacka]

I saw the shuttle re-enter over SF in 1995 at night. It looked like a red roman candle that took about 1-2 minutes to pass from horizon to horizon.
The bright light and smoke trail are normal.
I heard the sonic booms about 5 minutes later. They were over Louisiana at that time. It takes the sonic boom about 5 minutes to travel to the ground.
It looks like the tape they are showing caught the breakup. The beginning of it looked fine to me.

[Howlin]

Thanks for your eye-witness account of what it normally looked like.

This shuttle was fine until it was over Texas.

[wasp69]

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