View Full Version : Missile Launch west metro a half hour ago?
My wife just snagged a couple pictures of what she is confident was a missile launching about a half hour ago.... she believes it was in the vicinity of Golden, or between Golden and Boulder. Could it be something from the NREL Flatiron's campus?
Well where?s the picture?
sorry, Ray. It was slow ;)
ChickNorris
02-22-2021, 16:27
Hope they had a waiver.
ChickNorris
02-22-2021, 16:39
One way to check is to look up faa 'notams' & see if anything was scheduled.
Hmm. Definitely isn?t fireworks.
[Dunno] - agreed, definitely not fireworks or even a moderately sized hobby-rocket.... It was many miles southwest of her location, initially left under some other form of power and then engaged the engine at the altitude where the white smoke begins.
She could not hear anything.
Probably just sending some plane parts back where they belong.
ChickNorris
02-22-2021, 17:10
Only notams for today are for a drone near Centenial airport and up in Wyoming.
Only notams for today are for a drone near Centenial airport and up in Wyoming.
Oh, probably just a recreational missle then.
Private spy satellite launch.... just what we need.... another turbo-encabulator in space.
From the Contrail wikipedia page: A contrail from an airplane flying towards the observer can appear to be generated by an object moving vertically.
Looks like an every day regular old jet contrail to me.
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beast556
02-22-2021, 18:53
Another vote for aliens, they were probly anal probing king polis.
kidicarus13
02-22-2021, 18:58
Relax, it was this. .. 85174
Relax, it was this. .. 85174
Man. That brings back memories.
Bailey Guns
02-22-2021, 19:17
Looks like an airplane contrail to me...
ETA: If you enlarge the picture it looks to be from a 2-engined jet. It appears to me to be 2 distinct contrails from 2 engines.
Scanker19
02-22-2021, 19:43
Lizard people at the Denver airport.
newracer
02-22-2021, 19:46
Relax, it was this. .. 85174
One of the best toys ever.
JohnnyDrama
02-22-2021, 19:51
Looks like an airplane contrail to me...
ETA: If you enlarge the picture it looks to be from a 2-engined jet. It appears to me to be 2 distinct contrails from 2 engines.
That's what they want you to believe.
JohnnyDrama
02-22-2021, 19:54
https://www.madaboutmemes.com/uploads/memes/61-twitter.png
How come George hasn't been nominated for the presidency? He's already in contact with aliens....
One of the best toys ever.
Ditto.....
TEAMRICO
02-22-2021, 21:08
Relax, it was this. .. 85174
Yup, that looks like it would work to Probe our Gov.
Maybe get that COVID rectal swab ball a rollin? as well.
I heard a rumor it was MAFFS 2: Hoser had a chili Mac MRE and they opened the rear ramp to let the farts out.
scratchy
02-22-2021, 23:11
I heard a rumor it was MAFFS 2: Hoser had a chili Mac MRE and they opened the rear ramp to let the farts out.
Wrong color
Toy rocket= their launch velocity is much faster. Near instant like zoozooka, and start decelerate time goes by.
Real Rocket with payload= much slower initial (correct term, start) velocity, and will start accelerating.
I can appreciate humor, but according to my wife (the firsthand witness) it?s not that fun toy from when we were kids, nor a typical plane contrail...
The contrail began with a poof and the object was going vertical to the ground, reaching the clouds in just a few seconds(edit: more specifically, about 7-8 seconds). We actually do shoot off hobby rockets with our kids, so I tend to believe her.
Guess we?ll never know. And we?re not supposed to ;)
Oh and now she says the contrail was blown easterly by the wind and dissipated in the short time she watched it.
Here are two more pictures that were taken seconds apart and begin showing the object entering the clouds and the contrail moving/dissipating a little bit already.
85180
85178
Great-Kazoo
02-23-2021, 08:37
Wrong color
Not if there was a lot of sour cream on it
Great-Kazoo
02-23-2021, 08:39
Private spy satellite launch.... just what we need.... another turbo-encabulator in space.
Stick closer to church-oriented social activities. ;)
BladesNBarrels
02-23-2021, 08:53
One way to check is to look up faa 'notams' & see if anything was scheduled.
Checked them thar not am's.
All I got was pm
[Coffee]
Aloha_Shooter
02-23-2021, 08:56
From your account, I'd have figured a model rocket, although something substantially bigger than an Estes. A model rocket would fit the time profile you mentioned. The CRASH website indicates they had a launch day on Saturday, Feb 20, from Bear Creek Lake Park. The NCR website shows they had a launch day on Feb 6 near Briggsdale.
The contrail looks like it is coming off of the ground because the airplane was flying straight at the position where your wife observed it. The start of the contrail just means that the jet just hit a layer of cold enough air with the right humidity level to create a contrail, was likely ascending when it hit the layer.
BPTactical
02-23-2021, 09:52
Contrail
Or Aliens
ChickNorris
02-23-2021, 10:21
From your account, I'd have figured a model rocket, although something substantially bigger than an Estes. A model rocket would fit the time profile you mentioned. The CRASH website indicates they had a launch day on Saturday, Feb 20, from Bear Creek Lake Park. The NCR website shows they had a launch day on Feb 6 near Briggsdale.
It was a lovely day @ C.R.A.S.H. with lots of attendees. Couple of H motors but nothing flew that was that smoky to that altitude on Saturday.
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If that is a model rocket sighting that would have required a large smoky motor in the L to M range imo. If it was as big of a rocket as described then there should have been a notam issued. Otherwise it would have been (probably) flown illegally.
Another option if its not a plane contrail - maybe there was a TARC project at a high school, though I believe they only use F size motors & don't require a waiver.
I don't have anything else to offer. Admittedly, the photo looks more like a contrail to me than a rocket/missile.
Stick closer to church-oriented social activities. ;)
OK L Ron.
Aloha_Shooter
02-23-2021, 12:17
It was a lovely day @ C.R.A.S.H. with lots of attendees. Couple of H motors but nothing flew that was that smoky to that altitude on Saturday.
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If that is a model rocket sighting that would have required a large smoky motor in the L to M range imo. If it was as big of a rocket as described then there should have been a notam issued. Otherwise it would have been (probably) flown illegally.
Another option if its not a plane contrail - maybe there was a TARC project at a high school, though I believe they only use F size motors & don't require a waiver.
I don't have anything else to offer. Admittedly, the photo looks more like a contrail to me than a rocket/missile.
Agreed although the description of the sound didn't seem like an airplane to me. It could also just have been a sound from a different source that happened to occur at roughly the same time as the contrail formation.
Based on her firsthand descriptions, pictures, and our past experiences with hobby rockets - not to mention the near-daily familiarity with contrails.... here is my current opinion. It was a hobby rocket that greatly exceeds the size and altitude capabilities of ones we've seen thus far.
I can comment with extremely high confidence that IT WAS NOT CONTRAILS FROM AN AIRPLANE.
She and I fully acknowledge and are highly familiar with the relative perspective of plane contrails, when coming straight at (or away) from us. They can appear very similar to this.
Nevertheless, this was vertical and was created in a matter of 7-8 seconds and then dissipated in 30-45 more. Thusly, the scale and distance are significantly smaller/shorter than that of a commercial airliner.
She did not capture it in pictures, but just below where the white plum begins, there was a brief darker "poof" when the second (or third?) stage ignited, which then took it up into the clouds.
Just as ChickNorris suggests, it is most likely a school project or F size motor, something just below the threshold of waiver-requirement, and my wife was much closer to it than she thought.
Great-Kazoo
02-23-2021, 13:27
OK L Ron.
Nope, Joe's Garage
Another flat earther ? :D
Haha, yeah could be MrPrena :)
Or maybe it was someone trying to escape this planet.
Nope, Joe's Garage
I know what it's from. I wore out I II and III vinyl
At the fi. at the fir. at the first church of appliantology.
Keep it greasy central scrutinizer.
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