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All the footage I’ve seen appears to have edits and is less than a minute long. The news reports said the guy stayed on the object for around 10 minutes. Whether he meant object as in jet/plane or just the smoke trail nobody seems to know. Seems to me an extra 8-9 minutes would show what it was, and if it was heading east or west and if it was a jet or missile. I mean, a trident is going 13,600 mph within 2 minutes after launch.

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26 posted on 11/19/2010 11:38:13 AM PST by Ransomed
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To: Ransomed
All the footage I’ve seen appears to have edits and is less than a minute long. The news reports said the guy stayed on the object for around 10 minutes. Whether he meant object as in jet/plane or just the smoke trail nobody seems to know. Seems to me an extra 8-9 minutes would show what it was, and if it was heading east or west and if it was a jet or missile.

I have yet to see a ten minute clip of the object.

If there is a video showing ten minutes of plume then it was an aircraft contrail.

Missiles do not have a burn time of over five minutes at the most and that is for three stages. A Minuteman missile has a burn time of just over two minutes before PSRE separation. Trident is about the same and I would love to see the size of a missile that can burn for ten minutes and why there would be a need for that long of a burn.

92 posted on 11/19/2010 12:21:33 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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