[rlmorel]

There was a video of people watching from a restaurant some miles away, and if you didn't know it was a rocket blowing up, you would surely have thought it was a nuclear strike.

[Red Badger]

My mother-in-law used to live there and everybody from there knows what is what. But I bet some tourists were scared.............

[Inyo-Mono]

That is some of the worst filming I have ever seen, and I have watched a lot. Person was unable to keep their phone aimed at the explosion which seems to be common among amateurs filming with their phones.

[zeestephen]

Re: "You would surely have thought it was a nuclear strike."

Within the last week, someone on Free Republic posted close up still photographs of the first USA nuclear test in 1945.

About half of the close up cameras were destroyed or failed.

The posted photos were quite amazing.

The ground level light flash and dust ball were hundreds of yards in width and elevation within one tenth of a second.

[cgbg]

Brief video shows explosion from beginning to end:

https://rumble.com/v7aj37o-another-view-of-massive-blue-origin-explosion.html