Some crazy lights and cloud formations created a mysterious celestial display around 6 am Friday morning in San Francisco skies, and it was all because of a SpaceX rocket launch that happened more than 300 miles away in Santa Barbara. Those San Franciscans who were up and about around 6 am Friday morning got an unexpected and mysterious light show in the skies. Several of these people took to Reddit to post images, with messages like “Ummm what is this?,” “CRAZY CLOUD THIS MORNING! Any news?,” and “any idea what it was or could be from? Portal to mars?”   Woke up early to this in the sky any idea what it was or could be from? Portal to mars? Thanks! byu/Mental_Marzipan6382 insanfranciscoThe mystery was quickly solved. As the Chronicle reports, the light show was from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Santa Barbara at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The rocket was deploying 23 Starlink satellites into orbit in a launch that took place at 6:07 am.1.24.25 @6:26 a.m. byu/NicketyNick- insanfranciscoWhat we saw in the sky was actually exhaust trails (chemtrails???), as the video below from the National Weather Service Reno office illustrates pretty well. NBC Bay Area explains that the visual light displays we saw were actually “water vapor and tiny ice particles” with sunlight reflecting on them.The things you can see with an ALERTWest camera. This is a video capture from the TV Hill camera of this morning's Falcon 9 Starlink Group 11-6 launch from Vandenberg AFB. pic.twitter.com/n7iRqIneY2— NWS Reno (@NWSReno) January 24, 2025 The trails were visible across Central California and Northern California, and NBC Los Angeles has some even better pictures from Southern California from photographers who were not far from the launch. CRAZY CLOUD THIS MORNING! Any news? byu/Nick_Greek insanfranciscoThe rocket’s booster has already returned to earth, reportedly landing on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.Comet over our lil city byu/helloidonothaveaname insanfranciscoRelated: Report: Elon Musk’s Alleged Drug Use Creating Problems for Tesla, SpaceX Board Members [SFist]Image: Squidandpickles via Reddit