Missile Launch off California coast - Pentagon has no clue

[guncrasher]

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"We have beaten the americans out of Iraq and are now launching missiles at their country with the subs we captured from them." 

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"We have beaten the Americans out of Iraq and are now launching missiles at their country with the subs we captured from them." 

hold a sec, I thought the missile was moving away from land.  since there no evidence of an impact in land, unless of course in happened in area 51 in which case we will never know.
which the simple way to discredit the another nation shot the missile is by just asking why would somebody else risk war with the united states, by shooting a missiel so close to our shores?.  and I mean the nations that have submarines and missiles to go with them.

this conspiracy people reminds me of the creator of the "loose change" video.  best proof that it was not an inside job, is that he's alive. had it been an inside job, he wouldda been right next to hoffa by now.

anyway, i live in los angeles.  seeing weird looking contrails created by planes or missiles is an everyday thing.

semp

[dedalos]

The thing that threw me off was the fact that every time I have ever viewed a contrail magnified I could always make out more than one point of origin (engine's) of the contrail.  That and the dispersal of the gasses typically starts at a given point back in the vapor trial then tapers off more and more quickly farther back and then largely dissipates.

This contrail was quite a bit different from any that I have ever seen.  It also gave a distinct single tube like appearance, more in line with what one would see from a rocket motor.

Contrary to this dolt named dedalios who thinks everyone but him is an idiot, this thing was odd enough, one-off enough, to have caught a lot of peoples attention and apparently, imagination.  

Glad it turned out harmless, more or less

I talked to that guy Dedalios, and he said not every one is an idiot.  Only the ones that could not suspect an explanation like the one golfer gave.  Me on the other hand, I am with you bud.  The only thing that could be is a Chinese nuke with north Korean markings, fired by a Russian sub operated by Bin Laden.  It is people like Golfer that are the cause and victims of miss information 

[dedalos]

The thing that threw me off was the fact that every time I have ever viewed a contrail magnified I could always make out more than one point of origin (engine's) of the contrail.  That and the dispersal of the gasses typically starts at a given point back in the vapor trial then tapers off more and more quickly farther back and then largely dissipates.

This contrail was quite a bit different from any that I have ever seen.  It also gave a distinct single tube like appearance, more in line with what one would see from a rocket motor.

Contrary to this dolt named dedalios who thinks everyone but him is an idiot, this thing was odd enough, one-off enough, to have caught a lot of peoples attention and apparently, imagination.  

Glad it turned out harmless, more or less

Comon, admit it.  Don't you feel like a clueless dolt now? 

[Yeager]

No.  What I wanted and expected was precisely what I got.  An explanation from the DoD.  

Nice try though, punk 

[dedalos]

No.  What I wanted and expected was precisely what I got.  An explanation from the DoD.  

Nice try though, punk  

hehe, uh huh  

How do you even know the explanation you got, was not planted in their heads by the government?

[Babalonian]

Boy this is making a lot of noise.  Simplified breakdown from a 20+ year southern-kalifornificating resident:

1)  It was a slow news day.  This has happened before, I guess it's been a while and nobody has remembered recently, it's that time of year (fall, the jet stream slips further south over California, and the cold Alaskan air and storms begin influencing the weather in our region) and flights from the far East and Hawaii make contrails like this fairly often.

2)  I guess an advantage of living further north than most the metropolitan area...  The "contrail" originated way too Westerly for it to have anything to do something originating out of Vandenburg.  I can see how living south and/or east of LAX would give it a Vandenburg-originating apearance.

3)  It could of been "something" going on in the very southern region of the Pt. Magu Naval Weapons and Evaluation Test Range offshore to the NW of LA, and which is a prety substantial chunk of ocean and airspace, including a couple of the Catalina Islands.  The Navy (and Air Force out of Edwards, China Lake, March, and/or Vandenberg) does a lot of training and testing on that range too, much of which is never publicly mentioned or verified with exception to air space restriction advisories... one of which was indeed made and which someone on this board posted a link to... so if it was the Navy, they've already said as much on these type of things that they usualy will.

[Yeager]

hehe, uh huh 

you better lolz

[Golfer]

Golfer, the FAA said there was NO AIRCRAFT, and it took the pentagon SIXTY HOURS to say what aircraft it was......  How do you know the pentagon didn't put that there? 

-BigBOBCH

Yeah...

Guess you really put me in my place, Sparky. Enjoy your conspiracy theory.

[dedalos]

Yeah...

Guess you really put me in my place, Sparky. Enjoy your conspiracy theory.

Stop covering up for the government Golfer.  Wait, now that I think about it, it was probably an empty beer bottle falling from someones plane 

[Shuffler]

I'd be more concerned about those dang balloons from japan. I heard they released a lot of them with sensors to drop on the US coast AGAIN.

You know the so called news folks won't be quiet about it like back when they were all Americans.