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Cyril Griesbach

Very cool.

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Robert Lalonde

Something is a little fishy here. It doesn't look like the north entrance of the GG bridge.

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Jim Evans

I wouldn't know as I live in Arkansas, however it was sent to me by DR Wheaton an Astrophysicist.

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John K Jordan

Was that supposed to have launched from inside the bay?

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Brad Vietje

Thanks, Jim, for thinking of me!

As I understand it, there was a missile launch, but the photo is a time exposure that shows the movement of a bright fuzzy object over time, not a huge, glowing object. From what I read, it was launched from a ways off the coast, traveling NW out to sea. The illusion here is that the track of the glowing missile, passing from lower left to upper right, and getting brighter and brighter, then suddenly a lot dimmer, but continuing on towards the upper right, LOOKS like an enormous, 2-mile-long missile, but is really the trailed image of something fairly small. From some locations it appeared to be traveling over land, but that's just an illusion of perspective.

The gasses expelled by the rocket engine spread out over a pretty wide area, but the missile is not half the size of downtown San Francisco. why they were testing a missile at night when everyone could see it is beyond me.

Here's another story explaining what was going on:

http://abc30.com/science/explained-light-in-the-sky-over-california/1076042/

Safe spinning,

Brad Vietje

Newbury, VT

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David Bassett

That's the view from the Marin Headlands looking South (SSSE?) towards San Francisco. The bay is to the left and the Pacific is straight and to the right. Since the missile was highly visible, to the south, from south of the bay, it didn't come from there. :-)