Looks like we was fired upon by Koreans...
There was no EMP attack on the Splendor. None of the electronics, either shipboard or belonging to passengers, was damaged. The ship lost power, but the electronics weren’t harmed. And, once in range of shore, passengers cell phones and laptop wi-fi signals worked just fine.
It wasn’t a plane. I saw a similar corkscrew contrail the other day on a FR posting of a launch of an anti-aircraft missile. The corkscrew began shortly above the launch platform and then the missile straightened itself out and shot off into the atmosphere.
Go back and look at old V2 missile firing films from Germany and you’ll see one vere off and spiral before it crashed.
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I didn’t know what to think of TWA 800 at the time. Personally, I had flown on that flight two months prior to the incident, so I read a lot of the press releases and analysis. Then later I was watching news coverage of a terrorist event, it might have been 9/11, George Stephanopolis offhandedly listed prior terrorist activity. He casually included TWA800 in his list.
I was so startled that I used my DVR control to rewind and listen again. While he was out of the Clinton Whitehouse during the event, I presume that he still had administration contacts who would have known if there was a cover-up.
It could have also been the Romulans using their new pulsar-master-blaster Phaser cannon. There's just as much evidence to support Romulans, as there is any evidence to support some idiotic claim of an EMP - an EMP that magically disables the ship's engine, but leaves all other electronic completely unharmed. Maybe it was a Romulan RMP?
"Andrew,” a retired U.S. Navy fire control technician...
...who happened to not want to share his last name. Imagine that.
"“is blatantly a foreign made, large Cruise or ICBM missile, being launched by a sub-surface aquatic platform.” "
...that also happens to be invisible to the naked eye, and creates no sonic boom. An invisible, silent super-sonic missile. Sounding more like Romulans with every paragraph.
Well, at least Mr. Cashill has another conspiracy theory to occupy his time. I hope the "hospital" continues to allow him internet access. I would hate it if his next missive wouldn't be able to reach his fans.
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I have sat on the beach and watched commercial airliners turn into what appear to be missile launches several times.
The Great CBS Missile Hoax of 2010
Too much speculation
I am amazed that the chem-trail kooks have not chimed in.
As for myself, I vote that it is a missile.
F-ing CONTRAIL. Why does this idiotic “story” persist? I blame Beck.
If it were a focused EMP attack. Every electronic device on board would die. This includes passengers phones,cameras,watches and I don't remember reading that. Unless they got over Three Thousand people to clam up.
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The speculation is not the problem, the problem is that the media doesn't ask the questions they should ... leaving any one of "us" nutcases to come up with our own theory. Why the media ignores seeking the truth on events like this is breathtakingly amazing. Pulitzer Prizes are collecting dust on the shelves while reporters spend time analyzing the social ramifications of Grammy Awards rather than researching a foreign missile fired 30 miles off our shore.
What fun it would be to be a young reporter today. All you have to do is find ONE of these many stories, track it to its source, and you are set for life. Book deals, movies, talk shows ... fame! What opportunities they miss. Should I suppose this is trained out of them at reporter school (grade school?).
It is operated by United Parcel Service who, I would think, owns it, as well.