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Jan 06, 2012 21:51 | #1

I was at the Huntington Beach Pier tonight checking out the big surf and just after the sunset I saw this!

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Is this a missle?

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Jan 06, 2012 21:54 | #2

Hmm I was out shooting surf down south in Laguna and did not see this. Interesting :confused:

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Jan 06, 2012 21:59 as a reply to @ Fricks's post | #3

Picture was taken at about 5:25pm

Here is another crop of one of the many pictures I took.
There is a bright light next to the object.

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Jan 06, 2012 22:09 | #5

Yes I see those contrails all the time but this one was coming straight out of the ocean pointed up.

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Jan 06, 2012 22:10 | #6

Those are just airplanes producing contrails... or chemtrails if you're "one of those."

Look up enough on a clear day and you'll see them crisscrossing the sky all the time. If the contrails linger around long enough they'll create cirrus clouds.

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Jan 06, 2012 22:15 | #8

It's still a contrail, a long one, but a contrail. There was a sighting a few years back that panicked a lot of folks. A mystery missile launch. Turns out it was just a long contrail.

http://www.cbsnews.com …ational/main7036716.shtml
http://abcnews.go.com …?id=12097155#.TwfGbvncCM0

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Jan 06, 2012 22:17 | #9

Here is another link with the solution and less of the panicking talking heads.
http://wattsupwiththat.com …le-launch-off-california/

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Jan 06, 2012 22:51 | #10

gjl711 wrote in post #13661183

Here is another link with the solution and less of the panicking talking heads.
http://wattsupwiththat.com …le-launch-off-california/

That.

http://spaceflightnow.com/tracking/index.html says no

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Jan 07, 2012 21:55 | #11

JS MS3 wrote in post #13661159

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Jan 08, 2012 02:22 | #12

it looks to be a U.F.O ocean based aliens leaving the atmosphere ...have some in Lake Mi. too..

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