The video in the story you link to has been edited. Immediately after the Skunk Bay video was released I made copies and did extensive study. I am familiar with the entire sequence, studied it over and over.
Notice that the linked video never shows the 'rising light' to the left of the screen. Just prior to the video ending there is a 'flash' in the night video. Bear in mind that the action appears faster in the video than actual life because it is time lapse still pictures; shown in sequence it appears as motion video.
The video begins with a darkening sky. Vehicle traffic on Whidbey Island is seen, predominately traveling from screen right to screen left; in one pass the red streak of tail lights can be detected. One such pass is brighter and faster than the others but is still a vehicle passage from right of screen to left. Following that the screen grows quite dark.
Suddenly there is a flash that blanks out the video. Then an extremely bright light, not on the same level as the road traffic, passes from the left side of the screen to the right. That is the helicopter mentioned in the story. The pilots admitted later that they left their search beam, aimed downward, on during the pass transversing the island.
Where the deception occurs in the posted video is that the picture stops after the helicopter completes its crossing. Had the video continued, there would have been some brightening of the sky, first moderately directly behind Whidbey Island and then increasingly on the far left of the frame. That increasingly bright light then erupts into a vertical streak, and the video shows the missile at the top of that vertical streak. (Again, bear in mind that the video is not continuous action but a sequential composite of time delay still photographs.)
The video frame showing the missile atop its rocket plume is not ambiguous. The Skunk Bay camera (high resolution) just caught it as it rises out of frame. The flash is presumed by most analysts to be lightning. As to the launch source of the missile, it is most likely a rogue submarine - certainly an unidentified sub of unknown origin, hopefully not of some hostile nation. The position of the sub, looking at Puget Sound and Whidbey Island, would have made it vulnerable to being blocked from escaping to the ocean unless it was a fast moving boat with good navigational gear.
As to the ownership of the 'rogue' sub, that subject is probably best left unregarded. I have seen a picture of an unidentified sub purported to be in the area, but the validity of the photograph is not established.
It is unfortunate that the video posted on The Drive website, author Tyler Rogoway, is truncated to exclude the most important segment of the activity. I would have to presume that the purpose of the deception is to establish in the reader's mind that the passage of the helicopter across the frame with its bright search light on explains the whole night's episode.
It does not!
Thank you for the ping, Bob Ireland. That is exactly how i remember the original video, which I watched. I don’t remember so clearly the red tail lights, but I remember very clearly the missle, as it was so shocking.
Thanks Bob!
The acquisition of truth favors the doers of the homework…
Some years back it became clear to me that the forces of disinformation
were seriously accelerating their ascendance and dominance.
Even Fox News had become largely unwatchable.
It was time to figure out who else was paying attention so strength in
numbers could be leveraged, because it was clearly time to kick the
“Eternal Vigilance” thing into high gear.
I went looking for the Eternal Vigilance Army of this epoch.
To fill the bill, they should be considered a threat by the Deep State.
There should be a whole lot of them.
They should be heavily engaged in sorting fact from fiction.
They should be Patriots.
They should be non-violent, as any violence would make them easy to eliminate.
They should be Prayerful, because the sh!t be getting right Biblical.
Guess who I found…
~Easy
There are numerous errors in your ‘analysis’ that we can get into, but lets provide some context to your remarks.
Skunkbayweather is a public service weather information website in the Puget sound area. The folks at TheDrive who unraveled the missile launch mystery are gear heads who write auto reviews.
These are nonpolitical entities with zero motivation to make things up or alter them in any way. Their interest was solely in solving the ‘mystery’, nothing else.
All of the information for TheDrive analysis was collected over several days immediately after the skunkbayweather camera recorded the event. Within the next 48 hours the weathercamera video was provided, the Naval Air station and FAA were contacted, the FlightTracker information was gathered, and the air rescue helicopter service was contacted to conform its flight path.
In fact the entire analysis was completed and published within a week. It would be virtually impossible to create the deception your ‘analysis’ requires in such a short time frame, even if the motivation to do so existed.
Besides which there is also zero confirmation of a missile launch by anyone living in the Puget Sound area. How is it possible that no one in the area saw or heard anything that morning?
No Bob... the ONLY deception in this story is the one that dopey Q-anons created for themselves.