[Cloud9]

Mid Pacific, that way, nobody will recover the wreakage and determine the level or origin of the missile system.

[Cog]

You might be interested in this test facility west of where the video was shot.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.2 ... 7&t=h&z=12

Further information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Nicolas_Island


Unless this was an intercontinental ballistic missile test, we are under no obligation to inform the Russians or Chinese about it.

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'Y')ou might be interested in this test facility west of where the video was shot.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.2 ... 7&t=h&z=12

Further information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Nicolas_Island


Unless this was an intercontinental ballistic missile test, we are under no obligation to inform the Russians or Chinese about it.

[Crazy_Dad]

Zerohedge had the official explanation:

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '.').. it was probably a test firing to remind the Chinese that we still have this capability. He mentioned we test fired an ICBM from a sub in the Atlantic once; if this was a test, it would be the first one we've done in the Pacific.

[Lore]

Jet contrails from some angles look like missile trails

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')Edit - This post was originally from Jan 19th, 2010. I've updated it with information about the "Mystery Missile" contrail of Nov 8, 2010, at the bottom of this post. Clearly it's the same thing]

[Edit again - I've mirrored this here as apparently my contrailscience.com server is crashing, sorry]

An interesting contrail cropped up off the coast of San Clemente, Orange County, California on December 31st 2009. The curious shape led some people to think it’s a missile launch, which it does kind of look like (all taken from San Clemente)


"Missile-like" contrail. Note this is the Dec 31st contrail, not the Nov 8th CBS one. That's at the bottom of the post.
http://uncinus.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/4/#more-4

[Niagara]

Jeez Louise Lore, did you actually watch the video?

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Niagara', 'J')eez Louise Lore, did you actually watch the video?

[dissident]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')nless this was an intercontinental ballistic missile test, we are under no obligation to inform the Russians or Chinese about it.

[Lore]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dissident', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U')nless this was an intercontinental ballistic missile test, we are under no obligation to inform the Russians or Chinese about it.

[gollum]

Has there been any military reaction to the event? I can't imagine an ICBM could be launched off our coast without some sort of reaction from the military. Has anyone with military contacts heard anything?

[Rod_Cloutier]

Could some private wealthy billionaire somewhere have built and launched his own rocket into space? (Its something I've dreamed of doing).

With my poor health becoming an astronaut was never a possibility, many others are in the same boat. If you were super rich, bored, and wanted to build a rocket so you could stand on the moon and watch the Earthrise- would you let anyone stop you? Would you even need to notify anyone that you were going to do so?

So the answer could well be a privately launched rocket.

[deMolay]

Maybe it was China showing how close they could come to the USA and lauch undetected? Why is Obama getting a free pass on this story. Should he not be asked.

[sparky]

.
Complete rubbish , if it had been a missile the " defence shield " lobby would be baying for funds
........for the good dope
http://uncinus.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/4/

PS it is quite natural for freaked out people to see angels in the sky or flying saucers it only prove people are anxious about their fate

[dorlomin]

This blog suggests that jet contrails have been mistaken for missile launches before.

Given just two or three images from identifible locactions and this mystery should be solved. The further appart the locations the better.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gollum', 'H')as there been any military reaction to the event? I can't imagine an ICBM could be launched off our coast without some sort of reaction from the military.

[Mesuge]

Ludi, no that would be a conspiracy theory. Everybody knows, that due to summer 2001 sunspot activity, masive swamp gas release and other unrelated effects, such as ongoing mil. drills about highjacked airliners, it was perfectly legit to be almost 2hours without proper AF protection on that day. Besides, there is a separate thread for this crazy talk.. Singing off, it sounds like Al-qaeda combatants are trespassing to my veggie garden, right now!

[Niagara]

This post at Air Vent debunks the airplane contrail theory once and for all.

http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/hide-the-incline/#more-10829

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'y')ou can see there is a light at the head of the contrail. What is more telling is that there is no gap between the light and the smoke. That means that the smoke is not water vapor. Were it vapor, there would be a gap of clear air as the gas cooled and the air condensed. Think of any plane contrail you’ve ever seen, were there any rocket style lights behind the plane? Did the vapor touch the plane or form behind? More importantly than even that, the contrail has turbulence which has a visually significant size. You can judge the size of the contrail by the roughness of the column.

[dissident]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '2') – Someone who doesn’t like the US, just showed us that we are very vulnerable.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dorlomin', '[')url=http://uncinus.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/4/#more-440]This blog suggests that jet contrails have been mistaken for missile launches before.[/url]