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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 7, 2018 - 07:53pm PT
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Or more likely a human launched rocket. North of Placerville.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Space X launch
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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A Falcon 9 rocket was launched this evening from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The rocket is carrying SAOCOM 1A, a radar observation satellite for Argentina.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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I saw that, too...made me pull over on my drive back home to Idyllwild...
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 7, 2018 - 08:38pm PT
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That's just like, what THEY want you to believe man. Where is Klimmer?
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dhayan
climber
culver city, ca
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Is it too late to repent?
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Trump
climber
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We just saw the same kind of thing in the night skies driving just outside Merced!
We were gonna stop and take some video, like everyone else was doing, but we were late picking up our chicken wings.
It was actually quite a quandary for us - we were like videotape alien Invasion? Pickup Chicken wings? Videotape Alien invasion? Pick up chicken wings?
We ended up going with the chicken wings, but hopefully someone else got some good video.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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I saw it, too. Elvis was piloting.
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 8, 2018 - 08:52am PT
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Reilly, it is never too late to repent. At least that is what the crazy guy on the side of the road in Auburn with the Jesus signs says.
Cool pictures, ya'll.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Pick up chicken wings.
I hope you didn't go to Popeye's here. They absolightly suck.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Thanks, pmac, that’s why I’m only having one espresso this morning.
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John M
climber
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wow.. that was awesome ^^^
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Gilroy
Social climber
Bolderado
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Oh, my Goddard! Nice links, mfm & jrig. Easy to see where the vision for Bladerunner came from in the reality of those videos of the LA sky.
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tradryan
Big Wall climber
San Diego
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Glad to see some people got some decent footage! We were camped outside Kramer Junction with no idea this was about to happen and watched it for minutes. It was really mind-blowing from that vantage with minimal light pollution - reds, greens, white swirls. BEAUTIFUL! Thoughts of Armageddon crossed my mind but a few minutes in I guessed accurately what it was we were watching.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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The best story of this is my neighbor knocked on my door. I opened it and said
“Izzit the Space X?”
We run out front and his retarded wife is there ALL FREAKED OUT! Bear in mind she prays
about 14 hours a day. I mean she prays that the garbage man doesn’t forget their trash.
“How do you know it’s a rocket?”
You can’t make this sh!t up, folks!
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Cascade Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Oct 13, 2018 - 09:36am PT
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Get the app NextSpaceFlight on your phone and you can impress all your friends by predicting the next UFO
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Cascade Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Oct 16, 2018 - 09:10pm PT
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Atlas V launching in a few minutes from the cape. Should be visible throughout the southeast US
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 16, 2018 - 09:56pm PT
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I have a few other good pictures from the launch but haven't been able to upload from my phone.
I was really happy to see the launch. A magnificent human endeavor, launching vehicals out of our atmosphere. Eould love to take that flight.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Dec 19, 2018 - 05:13pm PT
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The Air Force is fixing to launch a missile from Vandenberg (CA) in about 30 minutes.
http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbsked.htm
Launch is set for 5:44pm Yosemite Valley Time.
This is a Delta 4 Heavy - one of the big mothers. Everybody in California should be able to see this one. Look west and up at about quarter to 6.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 19, 2018 - 05:49pm PT
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I’m looking! Another scrub?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 19, 2018 - 05:54pm PT
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Thanks, Chaz. 😡
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Dec 19, 2018 - 06:34pm PT
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Wow, that was weird............
Went outside at about 5:34, 10 minutes ahead of the supposed launch, and bam, I saw what looked like a rocket contrail in the sky, to the west. Hmmm, guess I missed it and they launched early, I thought, and pretty far north to be from Vandenberg. Then I came back inside to find that the Vandenberg launch was scrubbed. WTF. I sat here quite puzzled until I just found this...
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/category/spoken-word-kpixtv/3997312-mystery-object-over-norcal-appears-to-be-rocket-launch/
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/12/19/did-you-see-the-bright-light-in-the-sky/
What’s this one?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Edit to add:
The National Weather Service in Eureka, California said on their Twitter that they believe it might have been a meteor.
If so, what a strange coincidence.
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JC Marin
Trad climber
CA
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Dec 19, 2018 - 08:44pm PT
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Elon has ascended...praise be.
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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Dec 19, 2018 - 09:38pm PT
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^^^ There you go.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 19, 2018 - 09:38pm PT
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Since when do meteors produce contrails? Stoopid gullible sheeple. Clearly the Air Force
hoped that everyone’s eyes would be on the Vandenberg launch so they could fly their latest
hyper-sonic toy.
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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Dec 20, 2018 - 05:31am PT
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Alien chemtrails
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 20, 2018 - 09:44am PT
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Well, Chaz, if it appeared above and beyond Mt Baldy from yer ranchito then my previous
assertion of an Air Force secret proj is strengthened as that would put it in Edwards’ air space
which is often utilized by the good people at Groom Lake, aka Area 51.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 20, 2018 - 04:31pm PT
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Is it on tonight? I see nothing on da web.
My bad, it is off again. 😡
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Dec 20, 2018 - 04:48pm PT
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Not tonight.
It's been postponed to December 30, at the earliest.
I don't have a link handy because I'm jamming a sandwich down my throat right now.
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