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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