[pfflier]

There’s no indication that any of the millions of people in that area noticed anything unusual.

That is a very good point.

When we launched at Vandenberg and experienced the "Twilight Effect" we would get calls from as far away as Phoenix and Las Vegas where the phenomenon was visible.

[decimon]

When we launched at Vandenberg and experienced the "Twilight Effect" we would get calls from as far away as Phoenix and Las Vegas where the phenomenon was visible.

For a missile launch I would expect people to be calling the police, TV news, talk radio hosts...