KLA said:

It turned out, that the ONLY thing wrong with the headline was the word “Space”.
It was actually a ship with 10 illegal immigrants from south-east asia on board.

Well the ship takes up space. The ship had space on it. The ship was on the earth which is part of the Milky Way Galaxy which is part of space.

So it was not entirely wrong.

Space ship with 10 aliens on board intercepted off the California coast!!!

It turned out, that the ONLY thing wrong with the headline was the word “Space”.
It was actually a ship with 10 illegal immigrants from south-east asia on board.

Now it is an IFO.

        An Actual Scientist said:

I was expecting that a boring and mundane explanation would come out for this, but considering how it got some national news coverage I thought it would be at least a little less boring and mundane than this.

My money would have been on a small military exercise of some type or possibly flares dropped from planes again, but flares on balloons is disappointingly unimpressive.

Me too

        Charles Barton said:

Yes. but was the guy who perpetrated the so called hoax really an alien who was trying to divert attention from the many million aliens from outer space, who live in this country illegally? These space aliens are just so sneaky, and has anyone ever checked to see if they take baths?

Hey, look, they came here just because they wanted to make an honest living and there’s not enough good paying jobs back on their home planet. 99% of them are good honest decent life forms which come to earth just hoping to make the money to support their families in a job most of us probably would not take.

Oh sure, you hear about the ones who are abducting people and giving them anal probes, but do you really think that is what most of them are like? No. They might not speak the language and they might look different, what with their giant eyes and massive heads and scrawny bodies with pale gray skin, but deep down they’re just the same as anyone else, except for the green blood and stuff.

For nearly half the length of the sky ran a solid, razor-sharp, ruler-straight black line, at least half-a-degree wide. It hung there like some celestial highway, defying gravity and rational explanation alike. For several seconds I did not know what to make of it.

Then I saw something else; a band of white, slightly thinner, running parallel to the black band through the heavens, offset from it by a few degrees. Then the solution was obvious.

The white band was a jet contrail. The black band which had puzzled me was the shadow of the contrail cast by the moonlight onto the thin cloud layer below.

I wonder what someone a bit less observant would have made of it?