Sometimes, it’s better to be lucky than good. Especially when you’re a photographer.

Such was the case for a fortunate fellow and his buddy on a clear night in San Francisco. Allow the photog himself — Justin Majecky — explain what went down on Slacker Hill a few days ago (via his Vimeo account):

By a stroke of dumb luck my friend Abe and myself were on slacker hill shooting timelapse photography of the Golden Gate Bridge. You can see the missile enter the frame from the upper right hand corner. We noticed the object immediately and I stopped my timelapse to record some video. What a crazy evening!

The missile, as we detailed previously on the blog, was an unarmed Trident II (D5) ballistic missile (not a UFO!) launched by the USS Kentucky somewhere off the coast of California.

See what Justin captured, and behold a truly spectacular sight: