Had a pretty cool light show out here in California Saturday evening:
Sorry, No Aliens! The Navy Test Fires Trident Missile Off The Coast Of California
Reports flooded in today stating that the warning areas off the coast of Southern California—around the Navy’s Pacific Missile Range—would be activated, causing noise issues associated with re-routed LAX operations. Theories flew, some being totally absurd. In the end, it was exactly what it should have been—a Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile test.
Sorry, No Aliens! The Navy Test Fires Trident Missile Off The Coast Of California
San Francisco Photog Caught An Amazing Time Lapse Of Last Night's Missile Launch
I actually saw this Saturday evening on my way home from the foothills; at first, it looked like a helicopter with a spotlight, but I noticed it wasn't moving very fast (relatively speaking), and then it went out. Then I saw the vapor trail and the shock wave and realized it was a missile launch (we see these every once in a while out here on the West Coast, but they're usually launches from Vandenburg, not an SSBN). I told my wife it was a missile launch, and she didn't believe me until I showed her the newspaper article on Monday morning. It was pretty cool seeing a D5 launch; I estimate the missile was about 100 miles up when I saw it.
Sorry, No Aliens! The Navy Test Fires Trident Missile Off The Coast Of California
Reports flooded in today stating that the warning areas off the coast of Southern California—around the Navy’s Pacific Missile Range—would be activated, causing noise issues associated with re-routed LAX operations. Theories flew, some being totally absurd. In the end, it was exactly what it should have been—a Trident submarine-launched ballistic missile test.
Sorry, No Aliens! The Navy Test Fires Trident Missile Off The Coast Of California
San Francisco Photog Caught An Amazing Time Lapse Of Last Night's Missile Launch
I actually saw this Saturday evening on my way home from the foothills; at first, it looked like a helicopter with a spotlight, but I noticed it wasn't moving very fast (relatively speaking), and then it went out. Then I saw the vapor trail and the shock wave and realized it was a missile launch (we see these every once in a while out here on the West Coast, but they're usually launches from Vandenburg, not an SSBN). I told my wife it was a missile launch, and she didn't believe me until I showed her the newspaper article on Monday morning. It was pretty cool seeing a D5 launch; I estimate the missile was about 100 miles up when I saw it.
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