People from several towns across the country reported witnessing the spectacle at 9:30pm on Monday night.
Defence attorney Stephen Gutierrez's trousers erupted in to flames in the middle of a court hearing.
The breathtaking natural phenomenon was photographed by dozens of people on Monday afternoon.
It is now thought that the vessel had been on fire even before it left on its fateful maiden voyage.
A faulty fire suppression system managed to submerge a large area under a sea of white foam on Friday.
Experts have warned that SpaceX's plan to fuel rockets while astronauts are on board could prove fatal.
The bright green object made headline news after it was spotted flashing across the sky in eastern Japan.
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A Colombian soldier had been on patrol when he accidentally fired a grenade launcher at his own head.
Firefighters in China were called out after the man got his head stuck while trying to conduct repairs.
The event, which released the energy equivalent to 13,000 tons of TNT, went practically unnoticed.
Falcons and kites in Australia have been starting bush fires in an effort to smoke out small animals.
A video showing a tree burning from the inside out while producing very little smoke has appeared online.
Medics were called when the woman mysteriously caught fire without any apparent cause or explanation.
A man in Detroit managed to set a gas station on fire while trying to use his lighter to kill a spider.
Dashcam footage has revealed the moment a fireball lit up the sky over Thailand on Monday morning.
The Rosetta spacecraft has captured the moment a dramatic jet of dust and gas erupted from comet 67P.
Scientists at Osaka University in Japan have managed to fire a two-petawatt laser for one picosecond.
Explorer George Kourounis has become the first person to descend in to Turkmenistan's infamous fire pit.
Geologists have been investigating a glowing orange hole that opened up on a Chinese mountain.