Often, what we see at night streaking through the sky is space junk burning up on re-entry. It is amazing what a little friction will do.
Most of what makes it through re-entry is the space junk made up of titanium and other materials like nickel and HSS that resist the high temps that aluminum and softer steels cannot withstand. Russia is the world's largest supplier of titanium and thus them building their sub hulls out of the stuff where the USA has had to resort to steels, etc. The pressure spherical titanium pressure tanks always make it down to the ground. They can punch holes in things at the speeds they are traveling at.
Russia is pulling a trump card, if they can have it come down over the Eastern seaboard.... Juvenile, yet I would not put it past Russia to do so. Just last week, someone predicted that it would fall over Utah in order to fulfill the Blue Kachina prophecy:
https://www.the-sun.com/tech/4770269/iss-russia-nasa-fall-us-europe/
Time will tell. We live in interesting times.
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