I saw this in South-Eastern Arizona, 65 mi outside of Tucson. It took up about 1/3 of the sky where the rocket was traveling. In the plume behind the rocket the sky was lit like it was daylight. I could see the mountains and houses. It almost looked like it was spraying a fine mist of something into the sky. We don't have city lights out here so the contrast was very marked. The sky was nearly black except where the rocket trail was. When I recorded it, these were my words... "What the f* is this? I can't zoom in any closer. It looks like a plane with a plume of white light or white something going across the sky. What the h*ll is that. I don't know what that is. Really weird." It really was quite beautiful. My phone video came out like when you take a picture of an over-sized moon without special lens ... it doesn't render the proportion you see, instead it shows a tiny dot. The thing looked like 0:28 onward on this film, but way bigger & way brighter. It was directed towards Mexico which made me wonder why. I actually had hesitation that something grave might be going on given all the treason we're being made aware of by past Administrations, the intense international globalist billionaire cabal attacking us through media, the Progressives in blue states willing to surrender the freedom & independence of our nation to them, the betrayals we see daily in Congress and the Intelligence Communities, and the silence of our Justice Department thus far giving the appearance that nothing will be done. It made me sad, wondering if I was witnessing an interceptor. I did not see the stages drop off. I only saw a plume towards the ground that looked like smoke. It looked like a launch happened in the Sahuarita / Vail area. So wow, that it was in another STATE. Holy smokes. Those must have been some BIG clouds.
I'm surprised you clearly saw it all the way in Tucson Arizona... it was launched here in California 147 miles away from my town. It lit up the south end of our town, Walmart shopping was killing it with all the bright parking lot lights but you could still see miles behind Walmart being lit up by this amazing event.
@@IvanHernandez-kz5uq I was driving cross country to SoCal from back east and was on I-40 westbound just west of the NM - AZ border (about 500 miles from Vandenberg) when I saw it in the sky straight ahead and very low on the horizon. It took me a few seconds to realize what I was looking at. People on WB I-40 were braking, pulling over, and getting out of their cars in the middle of nowhere in dark AZ to look at it and take pictures. I didn't realize it was a rocket launch from Vandenberg at first until I saw a bright dot fall away from it and realized it was a booster or stage falling away from a rocket. The only reason people could see it so well from so far away is because it was just after sunset, and once it gained enough altitude the sun over the horizon was shining on the plume and backlighting it against the dark sky, which made it look like it was glowing. In the middle of the day or night the plume would be the same brightness or darkness as the surrounding sky and wouldn't be nearly as noticeable. Launches just after sunset are always spectacular. We had one just after sunset a few evenings ago that looked a lot like that one.
Of course they are not boosters (plural) breaking off as described in the video. It's a spectacular view of the retrorockets firing on the first stage booster after separation.
Does Anyone Else See The Very Parculiar Looking Orb That Seems To Come Off The Main Rocket At About 1:04 to 1:09, Just Hovering There ??? Not The Booster Rockets Further Back !!!
Why is this rocket perfectly visible in Los Angeles and Phoenix Arizona, which is 683 miles away from where it launched? And we have no reports from Nevada? This is ridiculous.
It's not 'backlit by the Sun' - the exhaust is electrically charged, like plasma. It's glowing! The reason we're not used to seeing this effect is that it's relatively new - the atmosphere is changing. See here for an explanation: www.sott.net/article/372200-SpaceX-rocket-launch-spooks-Californians-with-eerie-glowing-trail-VIDEOS
It’s not charged. It is lit up by the sun light. This is called the jellyfish effect. It happens when rockets launch before sunrise or after sunset. There is about a 30 minute window. Out side of this window, no shiny exhaust. I live in Florida and watch rocket launches all the time. This only happens during the window described above. Very rare event.
Nonsense. I've lived near Vandenberg for over forty years and have seen more of these than I can count, including twice in just the last month as well as the Dec '17 launch in the video. Why as the sun sets or rises is the bottom of a mountain in the dark while the top is brightly lighted? Is the top of the mountain "electrically charged, like plasma"? No, the bottom of the mountain is in the shadow of the Earth's curvature while the top is at sufficient elevation to be in the sunlight. You can watch the shadow creep up (or down) the mountain as the Earth rotates away from (or toward) the sun. As a rocket climbs out of the shadow of the Earth's curvature and reaches a sufficient altitude to enter the sunlight, the plume is backlighted for those watching from east of a west coast sunset launch, or from west of an east coast pre-dawn launch. The contrast of the backlighted plume against the dark sky makes it very visible. Any other time of the day or night, a launch is much harder or impossible to see because the non backlighted plume and background sky are of the same lightness or darkness, and there is no contrast. I have seen this many times and have photos of it. Why isn't the plume "electrically charged" and "glowing" during a middle of the day or middle of the night launch? A similar effect can be seen with the vapor trails of high flying aircraft just after sunset or just before sunrise. On the ground it's dark, but the vapor trails of a jet and the jet itself are high enough to be in the over-the-horizon sunlight, and that reflected sunlight makes them "glow" and be very visible from the ground against the dark sky. As a USAF vet, or likely anyone who has spent much time in the air, I have seen this effect from the air many times just before sunrise or just after sunset. The sky above and the ground below are dark, but at 30k - 40k feet we're flying in bright sunshine.
(Copy and pasted from a google search.) A sonic boom is heard by observers when the shock wave(s) produced by an object moving at supersonic speed passes by them. This is unlikely to happen with a rocket launch since the vehicle is at high altitude and moving away
Well, it just happened today again. When I was talking to my cousin who lives in Phoenix and suddenly he was like wtf?? Then after searching and searching I ended up with this video. Pretty cool
The big deal is that they have far exceeded the number of commercial launches in one year of any other company. I wonder why they didn't land the booster again?
Ynow why rockets only launch near the ocean? So they the booster lands in the ocean. China has to launch inland, so the boosters land near ir on small villages. They wont land on you
People in phenoix:"THE ALIENS ARE BACK!!!"
[phenoix lights flashbacks]
I watched this take off from vandenberg, but geeze I had no idea you could see it that far away!
We saw it in Albuquerque too
i saw it near gallup nm
why is this in 720 and not in 1080p or 4k?
I saw this as it happened, it was a spectacular sight!
Gotta love those clear Arizona skies.
Lmao!!! "Nothing to see here folks, move along" says the media.
i say the rocket launch with my own fucking eyes...
TickoGrey cool
he low-key thought it was aliens 👽 😂
what was the thing inside the cone. ?
Are those ayys?
I witnessed from Oceanside, CA! AMAZING!
Literally five minutes after and my social media was literally saying this was first contact lol
I saw this in South-Eastern Arizona, 65 mi outside of Tucson. It took up about 1/3 of the sky where the rocket was traveling. In the plume behind the rocket the sky was lit like it was daylight. I could see the mountains and houses. It almost looked like it was spraying a fine mist of something into the sky. We don't have city lights out here so the contrast was very marked. The sky was nearly black except where the rocket trail was. When I recorded it, these were my words...
"What the f* is this? I can't zoom in any closer. It looks like a plane with a plume of white light or white something going across the sky. What the h*ll is that. I don't know what that is. Really weird."
It really was quite beautiful. My phone video came out like when you take a picture of an over-sized moon without special lens ... it doesn't render the proportion you see, instead it shows a tiny dot.
The thing looked like 0:28 onward on this film, but way bigger & way brighter. It was directed towards Mexico which made me wonder why.
I actually had hesitation that something grave might be going on given all the treason we're being made aware of by past Administrations, the intense international globalist billionaire cabal attacking us through media, the Progressives in blue states willing to surrender the freedom & independence of our nation to them, the betrayals we see daily in Congress and the Intelligence Communities, and the silence of our Justice Department thus far giving the appearance that nothing will be done. It made me sad, wondering if I was witnessing an interceptor.
I did not see the stages drop off. I only saw a plume towards the ground that looked like smoke. It looked like a launch happened in the Sahuarita / Vail area. So wow, that it was in another STATE. Holy smokes. Those must have been some BIG clouds.
I'm surprised you clearly saw it all the way in Tucson Arizona... it was launched here in California 147 miles away from my town. It lit up the south end of our town, Walmart shopping was killing it with all the bright parking lot lights but you could still see miles behind Walmart being lit up by this amazing event.
@@IvanHernandez-kz5uq I was driving cross country to SoCal from back east and was on I-40 westbound just west of the NM - AZ border (about 500 miles from Vandenberg) when I saw it in the sky straight ahead and very low on the horizon. It took me a few seconds to realize what I was looking at. People on WB I-40 were braking, pulling over, and getting out of their cars in the middle of nowhere in dark AZ to look at it and take pictures. I didn't realize it was a rocket launch from Vandenberg at first until I saw a bright dot fall away from it and realized it was a booster or stage falling away from a rocket. The only reason people could see it so well from so far away is because it was just after sunset, and once it gained enough altitude the sun over the horizon was shining on the plume and backlighting it against the dark sky, which made it look like it was glowing. In the middle of the day or night the plume would be the same brightness or darkness as the surrounding sky and wouldn't be nearly as noticeable. Launches just after sunset are always spectacular. We had one just after sunset a few evenings ago that looked a lot like that one.
Why wasn't the launch announced in advance?!
It was, they always are, people just don't care enough about space to pay attention to it.
If this was from before twitter, people would have thought this was an ufo thats loud
Why are theses Comments Disabled ?
Can someone please explain what the second light is?
The one trailing behind the rocket that emitting all those extra shockwave looking things.
3 years late, but pretty sure they’re the RCS thrusters (thrusters used to turn and control the rocket) just correcting their course or something
Of course they are not boosters (plural) breaking off as described in the video. It's a spectacular view of the retrorockets firing on the first stage booster after separation.
Does Anyone Else See The Very Parculiar Looking Orb That Seems To Come Off The Main Rocket At About 1:04 to 1:09, Just Hovering There ??? Not The Booster Rockets Further Back !!!
The faring?
Thats probably the faring or the payload. Most likely the faring.
im pretty sure its solid exausht from the MVAC 1D engine
Dammmmn what time did this go down??
Where are they going
Why is it so bright?
So what's that pulsing round object trailing the (rocket?)
Once again, 3 years late but they’re probably just the RCS thrusters correcting the course for the rocket.
I thought the first stage could land itself. Why would they not recover it?
Why is this rocket perfectly visible in Los Angeles and Phoenix Arizona, which is 683 miles away from where it launched? And we have no reports from Nevada? This is ridiculous.
I did not know what this thing was at first, Pretty crazy to see. I took pictures of this rocket.
Wat is it for
I saw it from lompoc and my dad worked at spacex
It's not 'backlit by the Sun' - the exhaust is electrically charged, like plasma. It's glowing! The reason we're not used to seeing this effect is that it's relatively new - the atmosphere is changing. See here for an explanation: www.sott.net/article/372200-SpaceX-rocket-launch-spooks-Californians-with-eerie-glowing-trail-VIDEOS
Then why cant we see the ploom during night if its glowing!? Because its not. Its backlit
It’s not charged. It is lit up by the sun light. This is called the jellyfish effect. It happens when rockets launch before sunrise or after sunset. There is about a 30 minute window. Out side of this window, no shiny exhaust. I live in Florida and watch rocket launches all the time. This only happens during the window described above. Very rare event.
Nonsense. I've lived near Vandenberg for over forty years and have seen more of these than I can count, including twice in just the last month as well as the Dec '17 launch in the video. Why as the sun sets or rises is the bottom of a mountain in the dark while the top is brightly lighted? Is the top of the mountain "electrically charged, like plasma"? No, the bottom of the mountain is in the shadow of the Earth's curvature while the top is at sufficient elevation to be in the sunlight. You can watch the shadow creep up (or down) the mountain as the Earth rotates away from (or toward) the sun. As a rocket climbs out of the shadow of the Earth's curvature and reaches a sufficient altitude to enter the sunlight, the plume is backlighted for those watching from east of a west coast sunset launch, or from west of an east coast pre-dawn launch. The contrast of the backlighted plume against the dark sky makes it very visible. Any other time of the day or night, a launch is much harder or impossible to see because the non backlighted plume and background sky are of the same lightness or darkness, and there is no contrast. I have seen this many times and have photos of it. Why isn't the plume "electrically charged" and "glowing" during a middle of the day or middle of the night launch?
A similar effect can be seen with the vapor trails of high flying aircraft just after sunset or just before sunrise. On the ground it's dark, but the vapor trails of a jet and the jet itself are high enough to be in the over-the-horizon sunlight, and that reflected sunlight makes them "glow" and be very visible from the ground against the dark sky. As a USAF vet, or likely anyone who has spent much time in the air, I have seen this effect from the air many times just before sunrise or just after sunset. The sky above and the ground below are dark, but at 30k - 40k feet we're flying in bright sunshine.
It's a video ?
Amazing how far of distance and you can see it clearly.
Don't forget how HIGH it was, and the lighting was unusually helpful.
Damn I thought it was an alien lmao
@Eemix technically speaking,we are aliens to other aliens..
Lol i was drunk running from the cops and and when i saw this i was like oh fuck im fucked time to go to jail
Why was is going horizontal
To get into an orbit around the earth.
Back lit???? It was 8 pm in La when it launched.... wtf
Harmless..what is it spraying...?
So nobody sees that light appear at @1:06 next to the "rocket" then disappear
Things aren't exactly "breaking off" apart from the first stage itself, those are most likely RCS bursts.
Not showing any comments when it says 170 btw
Actually it was dark in Cali as well at the time
wow it looks like a fish
Nicely captured!
If you would like to learn more about these launches, and this one: ruclips.net/video/EGOaHm0s6Es/видео.html
I saw this on my way to California! It was awesome
Yea friggin right, i saw the same thing in orlando fl 2yrs ago.
in 2015 same time of year as this comment? that was orbcomm-2
No sonic-boom?
(Copy and pasted from a google search.)
A sonic boom is heard by observers when the shock wave(s) produced by an object moving at supersonic speed passes by them. This is unlikely to happen with a rocket launch since the vehicle is at high altitude and moving away
WOOOOW, so American News TV can also talk about science???? COVFEVE !!!
Why is the 'official version" of this in black and white looking nothing like this and shot with what appears like 1950's technology?
Wait, no comments?
That tracking was from the SpaceX stream. not NASA. NASA had nothing to do with this misson.
WHAT IS NASA TRACKING IT ON, A VIDEO GAME? THEY DON'T HAVE THE LIVE TRACKING FOOTAGE? DID WE SEE THAT ON NASA LIVE SPACE STATION CHANNEL
This was a SpaceX launch. Not a NASA one. NASA wasn't really doing anything except saying "oh hey! Company XYZ is launching today go ahead and watch"
this finally confirms that the earth is flat.
shoutout to SpaceX for casually scaring the shit out of everyone in socal last night :P
Well, it just happened today again. When I was talking to my cousin who lives in Phoenix and suddenly he was like wtf?? Then after searching and searching I ended up with this video. Pretty cool
They are launch another one tomorrow night
This isn’t spacex why was nothing announced before the launch.
Why are they doing this tho?
Circa 2015/2016 saw a similar flair & NEVER found out reality... Anyone could explain THAT one of years ago, thx
Where are the comments?
Here.
Found this on Facebook, woah.
why in the hell is the booster is still staying airborne after being released from the rocket?
Because I’m pretty sure things don’t just stop and fall back to earth immediately after being released by something lol
Alguém traduz?
Extra cool.
Now what crazy is going to say "it hit the dome" ?
no comments?
1:59 "this is from NASA"
.. it's clearly a SpaceX graphic from the SpaceX livestream with a SpaceX watermark in the corner but ok
good footage anyway and jerry was quite knowledgeable as well.
Nothing to worry snout here folks. Just stay asleep. It was just a harmless rocket. 😂😂😂
at 1.04....an "orb" appears behind main rocket
SpaceX launch seen in Phoenix, filmed with an iPhoneX
Why can’t I see the comments. Sketch
goodbye north korea lmao
i saw it over san juan capistrano
Saw it at Santa Monica Pier, I was like wtf is that? I thought it was a plane at first.
Never seen a launch like this though
I saw it in LA
With no warning?????? I saw that off the 10 by the casino i thought it was a missile ,
“Really bright contrail” LOLOLOLOL
Great footage from the Air Penguin Plumbing Helicopter 🚁
The big deal is that they have far exceeded the number of commercial launches in one year of any other company. I wonder why they didn't land the booster again?
Same in California
Thank's for confirming :) It looked amazing
That's santa!😂
Mustve been a somewhat scary sight if you were uninformed
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I do t see alot of rockets fly at night but........never seen no rocket like this
flying to the moon again thinking about heroin
Everyone in LA thought it was a ufo 😅
i shall be the first comment it is my honor thank you
Sorry it was dark in az
that's what the media wants us to think............. Illuminati confirmed 👽👽
Im in phoenix and my friend literally thought it was a big ass sperm😂😂
Hey
That doesn't look anything like what they r mentioning
Nice cover
And you thought that this was ALIEN?!
It kind of looks like it is in water...
Because it technically is. The Atmosphere is full of water, it's what humidity is.
Beautiful.
That is not a rocket launch.
It looks beautiful
"Interesting to see but harmless..." unless one of them boosters lands on yo head!
lol
Ynow why rockets only launch near the ocean? So they the booster lands in the ocean. China has to launch inland, so the boosters land near ir on small villages. They wont land on you