Many Puget Sound residents were left puzzled by lights streaking across the night sky Tuesday.

The Seattle Times reports that (http://bit.ly/tIhz4V) calls flooded newsrooms across the region as people spotted the unidentified lights.

The Federal Aviation Administration says it wasn't a plane. The National Weather Service says it wasn't weather related.

Marius Strom, president of the Seattle Astronomical Society, checked online and said several bright objects - two former Soviet rockets and a military satellite - made passes Monday night at 6:55, 7:15 and 7:50 p.m.

He didn't think the bright objects were meteors, which are certainly fast but not terribly bright.

The Leonid meteor shower was expected to peak Thursday night.