Thought this would be fun and informative to share of a rocket launch sighting from a launch around 300 miles away. I didn't check the rocket track to see where it was when we could see it.
April 21st 2025 around 9 PM EST (per the launch time) a group of about 6 including myself were on the balcony watching satellites and the sky and this object that resembled a comet shows up to the ESE.
I removed the audio as we were doing what you do to sky watch at the beach (beer and edibles) and at times we sound like fools.
Initially the consensus was a comet, then I proposed a helicopter dropping flares, then I came to my senses and remembered seeing enough rocket launch videos on r/UFOs for me to look that up and sure enough there was a launch from Cape Canaveral.
I will say if we were not informed this would have been one hell of a UFO sighting because it was really intense, video doesn't do it justice.
The booster dropping was particularly weird to see when you don't know what it is at the time.
Video is too big to host here so shared via Google Drive.
Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gxo-XRe9fHuoRWZbAY43DcwP-8FgG89b/view?usp=sharing
April 21st 2025 around 9 PM EST (per the launch time) a group of about 6 including myself were on the balcony watching satellites and the sky and this object that resembled a comet shows up to the ESE.
I removed the audio as we were doing what you do to sky watch at the beach (beer and edibles) and at times we sound like fools.
Initially the consensus was a comet, then I proposed a helicopter dropping flares, then I came to my senses and remembered seeing enough rocket launch videos on r/UFOs for me to look that up and sure enough there was a launch from Cape Canaveral.
I will say if we were not informed this would have been one hell of a UFO sighting because it was really intense, video doesn't do it justice.
The booster dropping was particularly weird to see when you don't know what it is at the time.
Video is too big to host here so shared via Google Drive.
Source: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gxo-XRe9fHuoRWZbAY43DcwP-8FgG89b/view?usp=sharing
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