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upaloopa

(11,417 posts) Fri Dec 12, 2014, 11:28 PM Dec 2014

I just watched an Atlas V missile lauch

from Vandenberg AFB. You can watch it from the ground going up into the sky from my house. It is a secret mission tonight.

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I just watched an Atlas V missile lauch (Original Post) upaloopa Dec 2014 OP

Cool edhopper Dec 2014 #1

I don't know what the payload was upaloopa Dec 2014 #5

I was once having dinner on the coast south of Monterey when they did a missile launch at night brooklynite Dec 2014 #2

I saw a green one too about in 2000 I think upaloopa Dec 2014 #3

Weather permitting, and the right time of day, I can see the exhaust plume from Brother Buzz Dec 2014 #4

They launched "something" a couple weeks ago. jaysunb Dec 2014 #6

edhopper

(33,606 posts)

1. Cool

Reply to upaloopa (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2014, 12:01 AM

Dec 2014

Spy satellite?

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)

5. I don't know what the payload was

Reply to edhopper (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 13, 2014, 12:33 AM

Dec 2014

brooklynite

(94,698 posts)

2. I was once having dinner on the coast south of Monterey when they did a missile launch at night

Reply to upaloopa (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2014, 12:28 AM

Dec 2014

Weirdest exhaust trail (green) I've ever seen

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)

3. I saw a green one too about in 2000 I think

Reply to brooklynite (Reply #2)

Sat Dec 13, 2014, 12:32 AM

Dec 2014

Brother Buzz

(36,457 posts)

4. Weather permitting, and the right time of day, I can see the exhaust plume from

Reply to upaloopa (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2014, 12:33 AM

Dec 2014

325 mile away. That's a fact, Jack.

jaysunb

(11,856 posts)

6. They launched "something" a couple weeks ago.

Reply to upaloopa (Original post)

Sat Dec 13, 2014, 12:34 AM

Dec 2014

A group of us gather on the sidewalk and watched the spectacular trail, yet, I never hear a peep from the "breathless over everything media."

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