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Mysterious missile launch most likely US Air flight 808
Island Turtle ^ | November 11, 2010 | Corky Boyd

Posted on 11/10/2010 12:27:27 AM PST by Corky Boyd

Network news and the internet were abuzz with the report and video by Los Angeles CBS affiliate KCBS of a reported missile launch late Monday afternoon -- around 5 PM. Both the Air Force and the Navy denied they had any missiles launches at the time. According to CBS News the Defense Department remains baffled.

"Nobody within the Department of Defense that we've reached out to has been able to explain what this contrail is, where it came from," Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said. "So far, we've come up empty with any explanation."

And they go on:

"The FAA told CBS News that they ran radar replays of a large area west of Los Angeles based on media reports of the location of a possible missile launch, but they did not reveal any fast moving unidentified targets in that area. The FAA also did not receive any reports of any unusual sightings from pilots in the area."

"The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, issued a statement jointly with the U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, saying that the contrail was not the result of a foreign military launching a missile. It provided no further details."

A search for flights that could have left a contrail led me to US Air’s flight 808 from Honolulu to Phoenix. The flight took off from Honolulu at 10:06 AM HST, passed over Catalina Island at 5:03 PM PST....

(Excerpt) Read more at islandturtle.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: blog; blogpimp; californiamissile; contrail; disinformation; missilelaunch; mysterymissile; propaganda; usair
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If a missile was launched 30 miles from LA, why did only two people notice it?


121 posted on 11/10/2010 9:46:56 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed.)
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To: aruanan

How could a missile be launched 30 miles from a city of over nine million and only two people notice it?


122 posted on 11/10/2010 9:54:15 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed.)
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To: TomGuy
I posted yesterday that, by Friday, they will claim it was nothing more than an errant weather balloon. Someone else reponded to my post: Swamp gas.

Unicorn rainbow.

123 posted on 11/10/2010 11:56:04 AM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: SeeSac

Are you claiming that that is a photo of an airplane?


124 posted on 11/10/2010 1:25:00 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: Finny
Are you claiming that that is a photo of an airplane?

Are you claiming it is not a plane?

125 posted on 11/10/2010 1:29:08 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: Wissa; aruanan
But the complete absence of pilots reporting a missile sighting and the report that the replay of the radar data shows no unidentified objects then puts you in a position of having to fabricate a massive coverup. Why is that so much easier than considering the possibility that the video is simply an interesting optical illusion?

Aruanan, this is like the government feeding you a turkey dinner and swearing up and down to you that you ate beef, that it was "perfectly explainable" illusion and fantasy on your part that you mistook it for turkey, and that because their official explantation is that it was acutally beef in spite of your certainty and experience with both foods and your plain ability to tell one from the other, that's that.

And all along you know perfectly well that what you ate was turkey, sure as you're born.

Here's the deal: EVERYBODY I've heard on local LA radio and (with one exception) read on Free Republic who has UP FRONT PERSONAL EXPERIENCE with missile launches and aviation, including quite a few people who worked on air force bases around missiles, state unequivocally that this was a missile launch. PERIOD. No ifs, ands, or buts -- this was a missile, they say, and they are a whole helluva lot more qualified and believable than people who've never seen a missile launch, let alone about half a dozen per year or more on average, ALONG WITH literally THOUSANDS of airliners which have NEVER ONCE exhibited such an incredible optical illusion.

Some of us understand and comprehend with absolute certainty that for some reason, the government and the Pentagon are blatantly lying about it, and most people, for reasons ranging from plain ignorance and lack of experience to wishfull thinking, are buying it. And it worries the hell out of us that you a) are so gullible as to fall for an obviously fake explanation, and b) have so little confidence in US that you think we're "mistaken." We're not. It's very sad and very disturbing to see so many people being led like placid cattle into the corral with the "airliner contrail" explanation which is clearly, obviously, nonsense.

This is seriously worrisome.

If you want to keep your eye on the truth, you'd better start considering that there is a massive coverup on the part of the government, because that IS WHAT HAS HAPPENED.

126 posted on 11/10/2010 1:42:57 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: SeeSac

Yep.


127 posted on 11/10/2010 1:43:26 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: arthurus

No the ones I see are thin and way up. The Missiles launched at the Cape look just like the video. The planes do not go as fast either.


128 posted on 11/10/2010 1:43:49 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Americanism vs Communism)
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To: TomGuy

Calypso Louies Mothership?


129 posted on 11/10/2010 1:45:49 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Americanism vs Communism)
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To: rollo tomasi

That flight crosses the coats from the SW at Trestles...San Clemente. This launch was north of Catalina.


130 posted on 11/10/2010 1:47:35 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Americanism vs Communism)
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To: Finny
Yep.

What is your basis for claiming it is a missile?

131 posted on 11/10/2010 1:52:18 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: Finny
Here is another for you.


132 posted on 11/10/2010 1:54:27 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: SeeSac

Notice your plane photos do not have the telltale sawtooth pattern on the edges of the plume.


133 posted on 11/10/2010 1:59:41 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Americanism vs Communism)
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To: SeeSac
That's a still shot that looks like a missle shot EXCEPT the contrail doesn't have the spirals. If it was a video, then it would be pretty easy to tell. As it is a still shot, it's more difficult to tell, and my first response, especially if that was taken off the L.A. coast, is that it's no airliner. The reason I challenge you so quickly on your claim is this:

People in both official capacities with the government and with media capacites are BLATANTLY LYING. Because they are lying so brazenly, it is perfectly to be expected that they would show a photo of a missile launch and LIE indentifying it as an airplane.

I don't think that's what YOU'RE doing, but I do know for certain sure that if you think that video was of an airliner creating an optical illusion instead of a missile launch, you are either easily gullied or worthy of suspicion on my part.

I have lived on the California coast for 50 of my 53 years, and the other 3 were spent in Orlando. Living in both places, I have seen thousands of airliners cruising the skies, and while I have on rare occasion seen phenomenon similiar to that shown in the still shot of your photo, I have NEVER ONCE seen anything even remotely like what was in that video. There is ZERO, ZILCH, NULL way, in the context of the dozens of missile launches I've watched, to mistake them for airliners and odd air currents and lighting. That's just the way it is -- as Rush says, It Is What It Is.

I have also seen many dozens of missile launches because of where I have lived in both Florida and California. Many, many dozens of them, with easy confirmation from official sources that they were indeed missile launches. It is how I know it is quite absurd to claim the action in that video was anything but a missile. How many missile launches have you watched? How many posts have you read on Free Republic by former Air Force missile engineers? How many callers have you heard on local So Cal talk shows who say they saw the thing and are perplexed that anyone with sense could entertain the notion that it was anything but a missile? Just heard a guy with Larry Elder this morning: "I worked in missiles, and I know one when I see one. That's what it was."

Excuse me if I believe my own common sense and experience over the Pentagon's claims and folks who have maybe seen one or two missile launches in their lives.

134 posted on 11/10/2010 2:02:41 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: screaminsunshine
Notice your plane photos do not have the telltale sawtooth pattern on the edges of the plume.

It most certainly does.


135 posted on 11/10/2010 2:03:05 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: Finny
I've seen the video. I've seen still shots. I've seen plenty of photos of airplane contrails that share the characteristics of the trail in question.

Based on that and what else I'm seeing reported, I'm convinced it was an airplane contrail and it will take more than a bunch of people calling in to LA radio stations to convince me otherwise.

136 posted on 11/10/2010 2:08:41 PM PST by Wissa (Gone Galt)
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To: Finny
Just heard a guy with Larry Elder this morning: "I worked in missiles, and I know one when I see one. That's what it was."

Dang. You got me there. I only slept in a Holiday Inn. But I also saved 20% on my car insurance.

137 posted on 11/10/2010 2:09:15 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: Wissa; Finny
Based on that and what else I'm seeing reported, I'm convinced it was an airplane contrail and it will take more than a bunch of people calling in to LA radio stations to convince me otherwise.

But, but ... one of the guys 'worked in missiles'!

138 posted on 11/10/2010 2:12:05 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: Wissa

Have you ever watched a missile launch? Not film of one, but an actual missile launch?


139 posted on 11/10/2010 2:12:30 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: SeeSac

Have you ever watched a missile launch? Not film of one, but an actual missile launch?


140 posted on 11/10/2010 2:13:04 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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