Missile Launch west metro a half hour ago?

[Sawin]

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?

[ray1970]

Well where?s the picture?

[Sawin]

[Sawin]

sorry, Ray. It was slow

[ChickNorris]

Hope they had a waiver.

[ChickNorris]

One way to check is to look up faa 'notams' & see if anything was scheduled.

[ray1970]

Hmm. Definitely isn?t fireworks.

[Sawin]

- 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.

[Irving]

Probably just sending some plane parts back where they belong.

[ChickNorris]

Only notams for today are for a drone near Centenial airport and up in Wyoming.