BreakingNews: Pentagon, Navy tell NBC they have no idea who launched Monday night’s missile off Calif. coast. ‘We’re checking,’ frustrated officials say
Off today - trying to catch up :)
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A possibility is that the missile was launched unintentionally. It may have been a screwup. Someone may have simply punched the wrong button.
Vandenberg Air Force Base officials said the facility’s last launch was a satellite on Friday. Naval Base Ventura County spokeswoman Teri Reid told the LA Times that the contrail did not originate at Naval Air Station Point Mugu.
“It didn’t happen here,” she told the Times. “There was no firing on the range yesterday.”
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I won’t worry too much, as long as it was outgoing and not incoming.
Lots of odd things in the mail today.
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John Pike, director of globalsecurity.org, a website for military policy research, agrees. He said the idea that the government would carry out a secret launch illuminated at sunset, within view of 8 million Angelenos, is hard to believe.
“If it were secret, we’d do it at night in Alaska where only the caribou could see it,” Pike said. “It’s an airplane contrail, pure and simple.”
The vehicle is not moving fast enough and does not have the trajectory characteristics of a rocket, he said. The reason people think it’s a rocket is because it’s an optical illusion, he said.
The plane is coming over the horizon, straight at the camera. Because of the angle and the lighting at sunset it appears as a rocket rising, he said.
“I’ve seen a lot of rocket and airplane contrails over the years,” he said. “What I saw was an airplane contrail.”