Lol says the dude whose ‘proof’ is a blog
But here is a quote
“There’s a lot of speculation around here,” Tom Mills, the spokesman said
It doesn’t say they didn’t see it first hand does it?
Additionally do you have access to FAA or the ATC reports and communications?
No, you have no idea what was or wasn’t reported so again i’ll believe my own eyes over a random blogger
I notices you ignored the pictures @1599 of the space shuttle time lapse that looks exactly like the missile launch and the helicopter image that looks nothing like it.
I hope I didn’t interupt your other attempts at thread sliding regarding q’s tripcode
The Drive writes detailed and through articles about defense technologies (and other areas, such as cars). As far as I am concerned, for the defense enthusiast, it has far better content than the queen of the aerospace publications: Aviation Week and Space Technologies, and it is free, too! I think you could argue that the articles tend to be on the fanboy side, but they have also been critical of weapons systems such as the F-35.
Tyler Rogoway is an award winning journalist/editor on The Drive. HE ALSO HAPPENS TO BE AN EXPERT ON TIME LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY. The article was written in near real time, with several quick following update posts. There is no way that anyone had a chance to scrub/alter any data across a myriad of sources. This is the only article from any reputable publications, on line, or elsewhere.
Missiles are loud and very bright. There are 5 million people within a 45 mile radius of Whidbey Island. The "launch" site is quite close to the main glide/takeoff path for the Sea Tac airport. There a three other commercial airports in the area, which also serve as Boeing manufacturing sites, some of which have 24 hour operations.
There are zero contemporaneous reports of a "missile launch". Nothing from the Air Traffic Controllers, nothing from any pilots, nothing from anyone awake at that hour, nothing on any flight tracking program, nothing from any military base, of which there are multiple, nothing from any bus or taxi rider/driver. Quick follow up with ATC and other sources shows no record of any "missile" - which gave them very little chance to tamper with the data. Coincidentally, there is a medevac helicopter in the EXACT SAME LOCATION hat would be viewable from the relevant webcam, yet NO ONE from the helicopter reported any missile sighting.
With zero other reports, is it not suspicious that the only sighting came from a TIME LAPSE CAMERA ?
I read over the comments at the post. Of course, there were vehement arguments on either side. Still I was able to synthesize the following points, which I do not have the technical expertise to validate:
1) The fight path is too straight. It is virtually going straight up to the sky. Any targeted missile would show curvature in their flight path
2) If you look at the light streak, it doesn't make sense in three dimensions: it seems to come in front of clouds where it should be behind them.
Give all above, it is impossible that, of 5 million residents, dozens of air traffic controllers, scores or airline pilots and staff inside the airport tower, countless passers by on the street, and probably hundreds of people tracking flight data on their computers , none of them, in any forum anywhere, contemporaneously or afterwards, reported a sighting. Certainly there were cab/Uber/Lyft drivers and passengers out there, and the King County Metro Transit System has 24 hour bus routes. And it can be no coincidence that, at the exact same coordinate there was a medevac helicopter, and none of them aboard reported seeing anything like a missile launch. I cannot provide expert opinion, but the facts above make it plain that the likelihood that this was a multistage missile, say like the SM- 3 or SM-6 -- or any other possible missile -- is quite unlikely.