Last Friday, I was on my way home from a road trip with my sister when we saw something extraordinary in the night sky. We had no idea what it was at first. Was it a near miss asteroid? A missile test? Rocket launch? Aliens?! My sister took a short video (I apologize for the portrait mode):
There was a pulsing light behind the leading object that eventually fell towards the ground and turned bright red before disappearing. We watched the main object cross the night sky until it faded away. The mysterious object was a topic of conversation the rest of the way home. What was it? Well, I found out later that evening that it was a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg, CA. Pretty cool, right?