The Navy fired an unarmed missile from a submarine creating the bright light that streaked across the state and was visible as far away as Nevada and Arizona.
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The US Navy has conducted a successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Trident II near the southern coast of California, NBC reported today citing the official representative of the US Navy Ryan Perry.
The event led to a flurry of calls to law enforcement agencies and lit up social media as people posted photos and videos.
Naval launches are usually conducted to test the capabilities of its systems, Perry said. “The tests were part of a scheduled, on-going system evaluation test”. Information regarding the test launch of Trident II (D5) missiles is classified prior to the launch.
Here’s another video. The best bits start at around 1:20.
The light, described by many as a blue-green flash that flew horizontally before falling and lingered for as much as 10 minutes, was reportedly spotted as far south as San Diego and as far north as Santa Rosa.
The Los Angeles worldwide Airport issued a statement on November 6 about the military testing.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the military did not disclose the nature of the activities taking place near the second-busiest USA airport. Was it a meteor, rocket, or, perhaps, an alien spacecraft? But Brian Keating, an astrophysicist at UC San Diego, quickly dismissed that.
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Another News 3 viewer said that the light did not appear to be a meteor shower or a missile, saying that it was silent, hovered, changed course multiple times, and shined “a laser type light I have never seen before”.
