A strange light in the South Florida sky on Tuesday night caused many residents to prepare for extraterrestrial contact, but it ended up being the Navy testing a missile.
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Floridians will be disappointed (or perhaps relieved) to discover that it was just the Navy testing a submarine’s Trident-II ballistic missile, according to meteorologist Zach Covey.
The Federation of American Scientists explains that Trident-II “is a solid, three-stage, inertia-guided FBM propellant with a range of more than 4,000 nautical miles.”
It is not the first time that a rocket or missile test has been mistaken for aliens.
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Elon Musk scoffed at the misunderstanding a few years ago when a rocket launched by SpaceX was widely mistaken for a UFO or, as he said, a “North Korea nuclear alien UFO”.