Large Orange Glow Over San Diego California (Delta II Rocket)

Date: November 5, 2010

Time: Approx: 7:30 p.m.

Update: Thanks to one of the visitors, they were able to help identify what the light was, a Delta II Rocket launched from Vandenberg AFB.
http://www.spacearchive.info/vafbsked.htm

We had just returned home from dinner for our daughter’s 15th b-day last night. We got out of the car and I noticed this large orange glow in the sky and pointed it out to everyone. My husband thought it was an airplane at first, but the longer we stood there staring into the night sky, we all realized we were witnessing something very exciting.

After a few seconds, we saw a huge flare up and then it seemed to burn out a little and become much smaller, but it continued in the sky along the same path. I’d never seen anything like, very cool.

Additional Information:

We are in San Diego, California, USA. It was roughly 7:30pm when we got home (or maybe a few minutes earlier). We were facing west and it appeared to be moving south or southeast.

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