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The video below suggests the mystery missile launch was the USA showing Asia/China and Russia our ability to launch Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) from a submarine while OBAMBI is in Asia! Since when has there been ANY doubt we have the capability to do this? That the USA has submarine launch ability to hit China or to hit Russia! The first, a Pacific launch was 35 miles off Southern California and headed on a North-East - across America trajectory. The second, shortly after that, was a first ever Atlantic launch and reportedly went up above New York.

There's not much that's definite in the one video we've been seeing about the 'mystery missile launch'. What's shown there could be an ordinary contrail, hyped by the station to draw traffic. But there must have been at least a few West Coast Freepers who saw the thing as it happened, if it happened, so why not chime in and tell us what you saw? Was it really moving as fast as it looks? Did the smoke/contrail cut off suddenly like rocket engines do? Any signs of 'staging'? Speak your piece and let's get the first-hand information together in one...

Just spoke with old friend, very senior retired USAF general officer/pilot. Says his contacts, many of whom were his "boys," have no idea what Pacific missile is/was As I was calling him, he was calling me to run my old network traps to see if anyone at the network desks in NY or DC have any idea what this was! Data from video seems to be that it was large, ballistic, (not cruise) sub-launched. Course seemed to be trans-polar, so could have impacted in Arctic, Russian Far East, China, etc. Current guesses... and these are wild guesses (some from the...