I just watched an Atlas V missile lauch

[upaloopa]

from Vandenberg AFB. You can watch it from the ground going up into the sky from my house. It is a secret mission tonight.

[edhopper]

1. Cool

Spy satellite?

[upaloopa]

5. I don't know what the payload was

[brooklynite]

2. I was once having dinner on the coast south of Monterey when they did a missile launch at night

Weirdest exhaust trail (green) I've ever seen

[upaloopa]

3. I saw a green one too about in 2000 I think

[Brother Buzz]

4. Weather permitting, and the right time of day, I can see the exhaust plume from

325 mile away. That's a fact, Jack.

[jaysunb]

6. They launched "something" a couple weeks ago.

A group of us gather on the sidewalk and watched the spectacular trail, yet, I never hear a peep from the "breathless over everything media."