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StumbleRocket leaves spectacular trail
Friday, Jan. 17, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
It wasn't a celestial artist who created the picture in Las Vegas skies Thursday. It was the work of a Minuteman II rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, Calif.
Military officials called the illuminating effect a "twilight phenomenon." The intercontinental ballistic missile, launched at 5:17 p.m. from Vandenberg, released nine targets in the upper atmosphere.
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