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Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Move over E.T. - Strange ‘space cloud’ turns out to be Russian ballistic missile launch.

This video of it from the ground, filmed by YouTube user ZL OI, caught it as it was ascending towards the clouds:

Move over E.T. - Strange ‘space cloud’ turns out to be Russian ballistic missile launch.HT: Yahoo.
By Scott Sutherland

American astronaut Mike Hopkins spotted something very strange from his vantage point on the International Space Station last week — a bright cloud that no doubt got the UFO crowd buzzing, but actually turned out to be something more down to Earth, and a lot more alarming.

Two other sources, one in space and one on the ground, showed the cloud from a different perspective, revealing its Earthly origins as the test launch of a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile.

Hopkins' fellow ISS crew member Luca Parmitano had caught this picture of it, and posted it to his Twitter account the next day:

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