Spotted in the sky tonight updated

Kinja'd!!! by "Doge_Supreme drives a BRZ" (doge-supreme)
Published 12/22/2017 at 21:15

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Kinja'd!!!

Apparently it was the Navy testing a trident missile. Haven’t seen anything like it before, looked like two stars moving across the sky, one was putting out these ring shaped pulses of light. The smoke trail stayed glowing for a good 10 minutes after it passed.

Update: apparently it was SpaceX’s Falcon 9


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Kinja'd!!! "ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
12/22/2017 at 21:39, STARS: 2

Kinja'd!!!

Kinja'd!!! "interstate366, now In The Industry" (interstate366)
12/22/2017 at 21:45, STARS: 0

My wife* wasn’t sure what it was.

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*in my dreams

Kinja'd!!! "Poor_Sh" (ar4x)
12/22/2017 at 21:46, STARS: 0

Are you sure it wasn’t the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch? If you’re on the west coast it was supposed to launch at 17:12...

Kinja'd!!! "DipodomysDeserti" (dipodomysdeserti)
12/22/2017 at 21:48, STARS: 0

I was driving into Phoenix from the east and got a video of it. Pretty wild.

Kinja'd!!! "Doge_Supreme drives a BRZ" (doge-supreme)
12/22/2017 at 22:12, STARS: 0

You are correct, early reports had it as a missile test though.

Kinja'd!!! "Tapas" (tapas)
12/23/2017 at 01:11, STARS: 0

Now you’ll know when then 1% are fleeing Earth once WWIII begins.

Kinja'd!!! "His Stigness" (HisStigness)
12/23/2017 at 01:33, STARS: 0

You’ll probably never see a missile launch because they do it at about 2am, and they also shut down the coast from air and sea traffic. It’s quite cool, in my opinion.