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Mystery Missile Launch off Californina Coast

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kilo delta

Charter Member 2015
One expert in America believes he has solved the mystery of the unknown missile fired off the Californian coast on Monday - it was an optical illusion.

A missile fired off the southern Californian coast has been caught on camera but even the Pentagon has not been able to confirm what it was.
The spectacular footage was taken by a news helicopter and the missile's trail could be seen from Los Angeles.
The launch took place around 5pm (local time) on Monday and the location was described as west of LA, north of Catalina Island, and about 35 miles out to sea.
"Nobody within the Department of Defence that we've reached out to has been able to explain what this trail is, where it came from," Pentagon spokesman Colonel Dave Lapan said.
Col Lapan said all indications are that the defence department was not involved and the missile's trail might have been created by an object flown by a private company.
He added: "At this point the operative term is unexplained."
The North American Aerospace Defence Command (Norad) and the US Northern Command (Northcom) said the trail was not the result of a foreign military launching a missile.

They said: "We can confirm that there is no threat to our nation."
A US Navy spokesperson said it was not their missile, adding there was no navy activity reported in that part of the region.
Missile tests are common off southern California. Launches are conducted from vessels and platforms on an ocean range west of Point Mugu.
Military officials are examining the possibility it was a "commercial launch of some kind", or that amateurs had built a device capable of creating such a plume.
Last Friday, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California launched a Delta II rocket, carrying the Thales Alenia Space-Italia Cosmo SkyMed satellite.
But a sergeant at the base said there have been no launches since then.

Robert Ellsworth, former US ambassador to Nato and an ex-deputy secretary of defence, said: "It's spectacular… It takes people's breath away."
He called the projectile "a big missile" but said it did not appear to be a Tomahawk.
Mr Ellsworth said it might have been a missile test timed as a demonstration of American military might as President Obama tours Asia.
"It could be a test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from a submarine… to demonstrate, mainly to Asia, that we can do that," he speculated.
Mr Ellsworth said such tests were carried out in the Atlantic to demonstrate America's power to the Soviets, when there was a Soviet Union.
But he does not believe an ICBM has previously been tested by the US over the Pacific.
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Video in link...

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wo...ile_Fired_Off_California_And_Caught_On_Camera

Looks like a rocket/missile launch to me
 
An optical illusion! LOL! Yeah, right! And all the UFO's were all weather balloons. There was no crash in Roswell, and the government has always told the truth. Someone will come clean.

Don
 
Optical illusion, contrail, weather balloon my a**. Maybe a left over bottle rocket from the 4th? :monkies:
...You can clearly see it's not no illusion. Hard to cover up the thrust glow of expended fuel as it breaks the thermal layers
 
when i saw this on the news last night,i said to my dad...bet its a jet contrail...and imma hold to that...he just grunted....
 
If it's a contrail, then the plane must be on fire. I don't think it's a reflection.
or.....
It could be one of those contrails that don't disburse (see Jim Marrs books)
 
I've just read three different stories on this contrail. Alot of military brass and governmental bigwhigs have wasted time on trying to figure out who/what made the contrail. It's a contrail, who cares.
 
An airplane capable of making a contrail, at the altitude needed; would have to have a filed flight plan. They'd have no problem discerning which one it was. If it had no flight-plan, they'd have been tracking it. You cannot just buzz around in jets, in class 'A' airspace. You can't even clip the corner of towered airspace in a little Cessna without causing a stir.

And how could it be the only contrail that pronounced; in airspace that crowded with big jets ?

I'm betting on a missile.
 
Well of course their all saying it was a plane now and just was seen from a strange angle.
I don't know. The original video I saw from the CBS news feed showed the "thing" flying away but it sure looked like the business end of a rocket burning. I mean it was bright! I've never seen an afterburner that bright. I think their story is a crock of _ _ _ _!
If it wasn't ours, the last thing their gonna tell us is that someone else launched a missle!
It's an airplane, it's an airplane... now make the story go away!
Not so fast.
 
I've seen a lot of trails left by real missile launches out of Vandenberg. I've also seen a lot of contrails from high altitude aircraft.

Pretty funny to see so much hype over a planeload of people headed east at sunset :icon_lol:
 
Ain't it pretty close to water fowl hunting season out west? Haven't you folks ever seen the end result of a Mallard Duck getting blasted with one of the new spent uranium 10 gauge magnum loads? That is all it was...a well equipped duck hunter filling his daily bag limit.

Nothing to see here folks..move along.

OBIO
 
N2056 said:
I've seen a lot of trails left by real missile launches out of Vandenberg. I've also seen a lot of contrails from high altitude aircraft.

Pretty funny to see so much hype over a planeload of people headed east at sunset :icon_lol:
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Like I said.. if it were a passenger jet, it would have been on a filed flight-plan.. take no time at all to match it... and if conditions were such, to produce contrails like that.. the skies of SoCal would have been full of them.
 
The official word from the DoD is that it was a jet contrail, nothing more, case closed, return the mall and continue your shopping.
 
I'm watching CNN right now...two days after this event was caught on video...and they're still covering it. They just had a phone interview with an MIT Professor who was doing his own investigation, and the FAA has been reviewing radar tapes.

The knee jerk conspiracy theorist public who demands to know, is wagging the tail of the government dog to nail this down.
 
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