NUFORC Sighting 160562

Occurred: 2020-11-12 11:30 Local
Reported: 2020-11-12 12:14 Pacific
Duration: 10+
No of observers: 1

Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Left a trail

Unusual clouds looking like missile launch

I had gone into my bathroom to take a shower and looked out the window to the southwest. I saw this unusually long cloud that had a separation about 2/3 of the way up and many broken clouds below. It looked like a missile launch. As I watched it grew longer as it slowly moved across the sky without changing shape or breaking up. I thought it may be a missile launch as I can and have watched them go off from Vandenburg AFB. So, I checked the missile launch schedule and there was nothing scheduled today. An Atlas 5 is due to go off from Cape Canaveral on the 13th and there is a Chinese Long March that has yet to be scheduled and a Falcon 9 to go up on the 14th-15th from Kennedy Space Center. The clouds appear to possibly be a Vega from French Guiana but there is nothing from there scheduled until 16th-17th. An Electron is due to go up on the 15th-16th from New Zealand. I began to wonder if it is from an unscheduled launch.

Posted 2020-12-23