profdant139 wrote:
Gee, Salvo, is that possible? RDWIII was on the Bradshaw Trail, which (I think) is almost 400 miles from Vandenberg.
I have seen a meteor that looked a lot like a rocket -- except that it was descending, not ascending! This was on Nov. 22 of this year at around 7:20 pm, coincidentally. Many other folks on the West Coast saw it and reported it.
It's called Atmospheric Refraction. In the early '70s my girlfriend's father was the senior NCO for the Titan II wing at Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson. The missile sites surrounded Tucson. We went to the HS graduation of my GF's brother at the HS stadium. At about sunset, we saw a launch roughly NW of Tucson. I thought that her father would have a heart attack because he thought one of his sites had launched. He was a BIG guy and, looking for a phone, he ran faster than anyone who ever played on that field. It turned out that it was a launch at Vandenberg AFB nearly 600 miles away.
LS
