Weird light across California sky has plausible explanation

That strange light you saw in the sky over the Central Coast was actually the test fire of a misile off the coast of the Los Angeles area by the U.S. Navy, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

According to CBS Los Angeles, the test missile was fired from a submarine near Point Mugu in Ventura County near Oxnard, California.

A Navy spokesman said these tests are done to make sure the system is still running properly and the information surrounding the tests is classified before the missile launches.

The light could not only be seen up and down the California coast but as far away as Arizona and Nevada.