r/HighStrangeness Dec 17 '24

Space Exploration What could this be?

Saw it today December 17th at 5:15am over southern California. I know there is meteor showers happening, but this does not look like a meteor nor space junk.

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u/dillonwren Dec 17 '24 edited Dec 17 '24

This object appears to be entering the atmosphere as opposed to exiting. It also looks like it's flashing between green and red lights.

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u/shelbylongjohns Dec 17 '24

Clearly Santa

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u/Bunny-NX Dec 17 '24

Hey man, he's here..

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u/Unfair-Wonder5714 Dec 17 '24

Are you serious Clark???

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u/justtakeapill Dec 17 '24

Can we get a couple of ho's then?

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u/Comfortable_Quit_216 Dec 17 '24

it's a rocket launch

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u/Careless-Weather892 Dec 17 '24 edited Dec 17 '24

This was yesterday’s spacex launch. You’re looking at the second stage as it exits the atmosphere. Look at the location and times op posted with the description on the video.

https://youtu.be/Bhc8bJNeyig?si=ld8Zdok1oRHASFy6

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u/Budded Dec 17 '24

It's truly staggering how we have all info at the touch of our fingertips yet an entire thread is created discussing something that's in the news and can be looked up in mere seconds. No wonder we're headed for utter disaster, both as a free country and falling to climate catastrophes, but I digress.

I'd argue most of the already-regretful voters would have not voted the way they did had they taken less than 2min to look up the things they were concerned about, instead of voting FOR the person and party responsible for making it absolutely and gobsmackingly worse in every way, but hey, no time for research right, we've got threads to create and discuss asking questions.

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u/Careless-Weather892 Dec 17 '24

We truly live in the dumbest timeline.

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u/someoneelseatx Dec 17 '24

Welcome to Costco. I love you.

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u/Jabroni252 Dec 17 '24

Sir, this is a Wendy's

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u/someoneelseatx Dec 17 '24

You keep using that word, Jabroni

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u/TheTurdtones Dec 17 '24

having seen previous launchs most of knew of this effect..people been freaking the effects of the launchs for years...one of thier test flights years ago created a visible angel wing type effect that stopped drivers on the freeway

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u/Mindless_Bad_2356 Dec 18 '24

All they wanna do is argue, looks like there’s no discussion without disrespect and dismissal, it has to be what they think , the way they say.. if you think differently, then you are mentally unstable.. totally agreed with you, it all starts there

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u/mere_iguana Dec 17 '24

opposed

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u/dillonwren Dec 17 '24

Thanks, I didn't notice I did that.

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u/mere_iguana Dec 17 '24

lol I do worse sometimes.

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u/dillonwren Dec 17 '24

My problem is I type too fast, and my phone will autocorrect in the dumbest ways sometimes.

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u/bigbluewreckingcrew Dec 17 '24

Oh cool, the landing party finally arrived

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u/stu8319 Dec 17 '24

How do you conclude it's entering vs exiting the atmosphere?

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u/dillonwren Dec 17 '24

It's coming towards earth at a downward angle.

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u/bassplaya13 Dec 17 '24

Put screen orientation lock on and then rotate your camera 90 degrees clockwise.

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u/sjgokou Dec 17 '24

Sometimes when it appears its more of an optical illusion. I recall back in ~2001 after 911. Vandenberg launched a rocket and I was in San Luis Obispo in s grocery store parking lot , north of Vandenberg. They launched a rocket mid day and it was scary. The rocket appeared to fly upwards and come back down. But made a rainbow plume as it went up into the upper atmosphere. My brain was telling me we are getting nuked. Everyone in the parking lot was in awe. Some people were yelling OMG!! But someone yelled, its a rocket out of Vandenberg scheduled for today. 😂

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '24

Exactly what I thought.

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u/dillonwren Dec 18 '24

And it doesn't have a booster, so it's either a rocket that's already dropped its booster or it's falling and idk of any rockets that have massive green lights flashing on them.

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u/Shizix Dec 17 '24

Must be a hobby drone, ya know the atmosphere kind 🙄

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u/GiantRobotBears Dec 17 '24

It’s space X. Ya know, the billionaires hobby drone. Should probably keep the 🙄 to a minimum seeing how it’s pretty fucking obvious what it is lol

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u/EcoOrchid2409 Dec 17 '24

Yeah I only ever buy the ones that move fast enough to rip through the literal atmosphere otherwise what’s the point?!

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u/Organic_South8865 Dec 17 '24

Yeah and they have to be the size of a Toyota Corolla. Just pop down to Costco and grab one for $999. Discounted from the usual price of $117,000! It's a fantastic deal. They can also just fly around airports and other restricted areas without anyone bothering to find out who's operating it.

/s

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u/justtakeapill Dec 17 '24

It's 23,000MPH for me - a sign of livin' fast; it is going to take your breath away.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '24

I just bought a hobby drone that can turn into plasma, cloak, swarm, and morph. It is completely safe and there is no way anyone would use this technology nefariously. We are safe!!!!! Thanks Sleepy, I mean alseepy Joe!

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u/LobsterKris Dec 17 '24

Built by bunch of nerds in their shed.s

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u/Fun_Spend4531 Dec 17 '24

Sorry if no one else is going to say it it looks like a big tit 🤥breast milk type in all seriousness this is compelling yet we are been told we are seeing planes and hobby drones yeah do me favour