Time-lapse
videos show off
SpaceX's alien-looking rocket launch from the
West Coast
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People across California had a pretty spooky start to their Christmas weekend, when a SpaceX
rocket created a bright, jellyfish looking plume in the twilight sky on Friday.
Time-lapse videos show the incredible, alien sight
from the ground, revealing exactly what it looked like to residents on the ground, even those far
from Vandenberg Air Force Base, where the Falcon 9 was launched with a clutch of communications satellites onboard.
SEE ALSO:
No LA, it's not aliens. It's a SpaceX rocket launch.
"I arrived about two hours before
launch time (1827 Arizona time) to have my gear prepped and ready for action. I started rolling the
Time-lapse sequences about 45 minutes prior to
launch to capture some lead in footage," photographer Jesse Watson wrote in a video description of his
Time-lapse on Vimeo.*
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