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Did anyone else see the payload from tonight's SpaceX launch?


 
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I'm praying what I saw was a SpaceX launch. If not, I want to be the first to welcome our alien overlords.

The event was a first for me -- it was like a ballet. I was watching the night sky, minding my own business, say, about 20:30, when two bright stars moved across the sky from west to east -- but they couldn't be stars. They moved in tight arcs across the sky -- was rocket power making them move in non-ballistic trajectories?

Later (wasn't timing -- 15 minutes?), a train of ten-ish or so objects spanning perhaps 10 degrees, shrouded in a glowing haze, fly overhead in a straight line, moving west to east. Later still (wasn't timing because I wasn't expecting even more weirdness this evening -- another 15 minutes?) ten-ish bright stars in a train each spaced, say, 5 degrees apart, move across the sky from northwest to southeast.

What did I see?

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