If the time of day is right I can see launches from Vandenberg AFB here in the eastern suburbs of Phoenix (apprx 500 miles away). Pretty cool.
Takes a good 45-60 seconds after launch before its visible.
Rocket in the Sky plus Accident
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff7wbSwTuEk
Was stationed at VandyLand long ago. Been down in the undergrounds launch control sending missiles up through the silohs. It’s a trip.
Picture a giant steel ball underground with a 3-foot thick bank vault door you got to duck through to get in. Platform inside suspended by giant shock absorbers. In there for hours, door shut. Then....countown, launch. Big boom as blat door is blown on top of siloh, then loud rumble and off it goes, a few dozen feet from you.
Like a sci fi movie.