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This photo seems to show a moon shadow much like the ones that were seen on Space Shuttle launches. I also heard a report on some other website (sorry, can't remember which one) about a local who saw a "beam" originating from the moon at the time in question. This is the same thing that other people described when seeing that Space Shuttle moon shadow. I used Stellarium to wind back the clock to see where the moon was in the at the time of the alleged missile launch.

The moon seems to have been in the correct position to get the moon shadow as posted in your photo (keep in mind that these KCBS shots are extreme zooms, so the FOV won't be the same as my Stellarium screenshot). If that is a moon shadow as I suspect, doesn't that support a ground launch? There are a lot of self-professed contrail experts here. Can you point me to a moon shadow from a high-altitude contrail?

Was sent a link to this thread from another. Sorry about jumping into the middle of the thread. Do not think that was a moon shadow. We had a new Moon on Saturday. No light or almost no light on Monday from the moon. That looks like what I call a dark ray. Have seen them twice around the skies of So Cal over the past three years. This was one is odd since it travels down to the point near the horizon. The ones I have seen just seem to travel upward high into the sky at low angles. Even got an image with multiple parallel dark rays in the sky over San Bernardino. Very interesting that one possibly appears to intersect the missile path down near launch point. Always have thought of the Dark Ray phenomenon as some Global Cooling secret government project. But hey, another possibility may exist.

Was linked here from this thread.

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