Mike Potter, who operates P & M Aircraft Co., about a half mile away, said one of his workers called him from the yard to tell him about the explosion.
He said it came in the vicinity of a testing facility run by Scaled Composites, operated by space entrepreneur Burt Rutan, who built the rocket that made the first private manned space flight on June 21, 2004.
“An employee called and said there’s been an explosion over at Scaled and there was a huge sound wave,” Potter said. “Shortly thereafter, the cops were all over the place.”
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