UAP over California on May 2, 9:06pm

[relm1]

My local astro club has received multiple reports of this UAP on May 2, 9:06pm from central California. It wasn't a rocket launch (or at least publicly acknowledged launch). Any ideas what it could be? Doesn't look like space debris.

 

[Duke]

My local astro club has received multiple reports of this UAP on May 2, 9:06pm from central California. It wasn't a rocket launch (or at least publicly acknowledged launch). Any ideas what it could be? Doesn't look like space debris.

NUFORC had four reports in CA (Barstow, Hemet, Morgan Hills, and Goleta) between 2105 and 2116 on 2 May. NUFORC says all four were explained by a rocket but doesn't go into detail or provide any support data.

https://nuforc.org/subndx/?id=lCA

 

[john.phil]

NUFORC had four reports in CA (Barstow, Hemet, Morgan Hills, and Goleta) between 2105 and 2116 on 2 May. NUFORC says all four were explained by a rocket but doesn't go into detail or provide any support data.

https://nuforc.org/subndx/?id=lCA

If you open the reports, there's the same comment from NUFORC in three of the four sightings: 181358 (Barstow), 181360 (Hemet), 181380 (Goleta), 181388 (Morgan Hill).

NUFORC Note:

Starlink 6-55
Falcon 9
SpaceX

 

[Duke]

If you open the reports, there's the same comment from NUFORC in three of the four sightings: 181358 (Barstow), 181360 (Hemet), 181380 (Goleta), 181388 (Morgan Hill).

NUFORC Note:

Starlink 6-55
Falcon 9
SpaceX

Saw that, but there was no explanation or supporting evidence. The report from Morgan Hills included the following:

There had been a SpaceX launch from Vandenberg SFB, but that had been earlier in the morning. No other launches publicly declared. I did a social media inquiry, but no responders saw it.

https://nuforc.org/sighting/?id=181388

That report also included this photo, looks similar to that of the image in the OP video.

 

[MapperGuy]

Just happened to be looking at r/UFOs a day after this was taken. About a dozen or so reports of this from many places. Most seem to be gone now but this one is still there.


Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1cj0237/mass_ufo_sighting_in_centralsourhern_california/


Claim is its the second stage of a Falcon 9 that was launched from Florida 90 minutes earlier. Either doing a de-orbit burn or just jettisoning fuel., prior to re-entry and burning up.

 

[NorCal Dave]

I asked about in this thread a few days ago:

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/white-orb-over-northen-california.13456/#post-315334

Seems a secondary booster reentry venting fuel from a launch of Space X might be the answer.

 

[john.phil]

There had been a SpaceX launch from Vandenberg SFB, but that had been earlier in the morning.

There was another launch on that day. SpaceX Starlink 6-55 mission launched at 19:37 PDT from Cape Canaveral. The footage doesn't look like the launch itself, as it also happened about an hour and a half before people started recording the bright cloud, and the launch was towards the Atlantic ocean. But the second stage went over California, thus it's most likely material ejected from the stage.

source: https://flightclub.io/result/3d?llId=638eca04-7e89-4254-8770-4ae1da538004