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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThat bright light you saw in the West was not a fireball.
Update: Bright light seen in skies from Arizona to Southern California confirmed by John Wayne Airport tower as Naval test fire - @10NewsPhillips, @OCSD
What I want to know is, was the track of the fire?
Is the Navy firing things into the US from the Pacific???
Here is a page with several twitter photos and a video of it:
http://www.businessinsider.com/bright-light-in-the-sky-west-coast-2015-11
Liberty Belle
(9,535 posts)San Diego Union-Tribune has details:
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/nov/07/mystery-light-sky-military-navy-drill/
It scared a lot of people. One video on YouTube had the filmers wondering if they were about to see the end of the world. Lots of others thought it was a UFO, or a meteor.
FYI for the next 6 nights the military is reserving air space off Los Angeles and diverting all flights into LAX to the east, so must be something big going down.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and then civilian authorities are flooded with calls as people want to know what happened?
Hydra
(14,459 posts)I have a friend there who was interested.
delrem
(9,688 posts)WestSeattle2
(1,730 posts)LAX has been rerouted over Inglewood, rather than from the west.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)A group of friends and I saw that from a park in Palmdale, CA. It appeared to be due West of us, over the Pacific.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Takket
(21,620 posts)Scaring the shit out of all of LA. Wasting the time of 911 operators getting all these calls. Doing this stuff unannounced is socially irresponsible.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)I told youse that this would happen. No one believed me.
eppur_se_muova
(36,285 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)given that the fireballs were predicted, so people were looking for them.
There are pics on you tube of objects like these causing bewilderment in Russia, , but the Russian Gov has claimed they WERE meteors.
Not with that signature they aren't, and now we know that.
sadly, people in teh Middle East recognize these right away, but we have had little experience here.
After Twitter roaming last night, I feel more educated.