EDGE and a UFO Satellite

I have just witnessed quite the spectacle. About 15 minutes ago, I saw something strange outside of the Encinitas Ca Starbucks on the 101. In the twilight sky over the vast Pacific a UFO appeared. Screaming up from the horizon the strange object slowed abruptly and than continued on it’s path South-Southeast. At the place where it slowed a large smoke plume appeared which seemed to get brighter as the sky darkened. Fortunately I had my new W600i camera phone. I snapped 8 pics and used the phones wireless modem feature to link up to the EDGE network and send them to Flickr.

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I watched as the object seemed to emit some type of vapor sporadically as it trailed off. This was definitely not a comet and had to have been something engineered… upon further review it must have been a satellite being launched from somewhere in the Pacific I’m very curious to see if there were any other sightings. As far as the validity of these photos go, I know the quality is poor but check out the upload timestamps on Flickr. If there were other sightings, this could easily be verified. Crazy stuff.

Update __________________________________

It is now confirmed that this was no UFO, nay it was a Delta IV rocket launching a NROL-22 reconnaissance satellite into orbit. Here’s the press release.

It was launched from Vandenburg AFB just north of Santa Barbara. I’m glad it wasn’t aliens or the Koreans…