This is insane.
A missile? Seriously? FR, a place I’ve learned to come for clarity of thought and common sense in these days when such is so rare, and we have so many believing in a conspiracy theory to protect misileering pirates?
It is so, so very clear when you look at the various vid pieces of this thing that it is a conventional aircraft traveling eastbound over the coast..........not a phantom missile by the ChiCom Overlords.
-the contrail fades in and out, even disappears at times, just as an airline passing through different altitudes and aerial conditions
-the source of the contrail is coming toward the camera as evidenced by the clear glint of sunlight off of the aircraft’s underside...that wouldn’t be so clear of something headed west where this would have been obscured by the trail
So, this is a Chinese SLBM? Where did it go? The seaways and airways are crowded with commercial traffic communicating over very public airwaves. Commercial pilots over a very busy SoCal would be sure to notice A BALLISTIC MISSILE blowing a whole through traffic lanes right off of the coast and yet no alarm was sounded.
Good God, people, get a flippin’ grip. This isn’t political or about Obama or the Chinese or the Zeta Reticulans..........it’s a freakin’ airplane and it’s not hard to see.
Absolutely have to agree. Optical illusions, especially in two dimensions on video, happen. The real “culprits” in all this are the hyper active / sub room temperature IQ’s of the television reporters who went to a very old man who confirmed that it looked like a missile launch from an “underwater submarine” (as opposed to all the other kinds). Reason? Demonstrate that we have the know how to launch missiles from a sub. Who knew?
You were obviously looking at the thing from the other side because you describe it as the reverse of what the vid shows. Could you possibly put up that other video that was shot from that other angle?
Welcome to the new, improved FR.
I agree with you.