Weird Sky

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A little while ago, my husband and I were driving towards a restaurant to meet my son and his family. As we were driving by a particularly large light display, he suddenly asked me if I had seen the weird light.

I told him that I thought that is was a very large display and looked a bit like a giraffe but it is not that weird.

"No, look at the sky!!"

No can do while driving. and that was the end of that, I thought.

We parked and I did look up at the sky and saw a beautiful crescent moon.

You all are steemians and I don't have to tell you what came next. I grabbed my camera and started looking for a spot to get a picture without the interference of streetlights and such.

Stepping up on a boulder, I glanced to my right and saw this.

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What????

Then my phone went off with my other son, who lives 5 mi west of us, texting me to step outside and look at the sky. I was way ahead of him!!

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Look at that tail of that whatever-it-might-be thing in the sky.

So weird.

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Of course, I was trying to get as many pictures of it as possible and not for the first time wished that I had a better camera. This is all taken with my iPhone 6.

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But who knows, I might not want to schlepp a bigger camera around with me all the time and have in my purse like my handy phone.

And guess what, in my excitement over the weird formation in the sky, I forgot to turn my camera to the left and snap a picture of the moon. So, I have to leave you with another cloud picture.

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What do you think this might be?

Update: As you can see in the comments, several people knew what this was. It was Space X - a rocket launch of a communication satellite that took place from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc California. People saw it all over California and as far away as Arizona and Nevada.

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