NUFORC Sighting 123610

Occurred: 2015-11-07 18:00 Local
Reported: 2015-11-07 19:18 Pacific
Duration: 4 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Del Mar, CA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

Contrail then white cloud, then blue/green cloud over Del Mar, CA.

Broad point of white light with a long contrail behind it; the area immediately after the light was illuminated/glowing. There was a flashing red light a short distance behind the area that was glowing. These lights moved across the sky as a commercial airliner would. After it arced across approximately 40 degrees of sky, the light disappeared. After 5 or 10 seconds, a large white cloud appeared, initially the size of my fist (outstretched arm) and finally covering a major portion of the western sky (perhaps the size of a hulu hoop in my outstretched arm). This remained for a minute or so and eventually dissipated. When the large white cloud was gone, a smaller blue/green cloud was left. As it was dark outside, it was interesting that both the white cloud and the blue/green cloud were visible in the sky.

NUFORC Note:

US Navy missile launch. PD

Posted 2015-11-12