My gut feeling is that this is all a remarkable set of visual acts of trickery.
But my sense of self preservation combined with the overall political dangers and signs of weakness being potrayed like a burlesque show by our POTUS has indeed created a scenario of suspicious circumstances.
While its possible for a sub to launch that close the CONUS it absolutely cannot escape, it could kill itself and dive deep into an underwater canyon though, and never be found.
Our enemies know not reason, only a dying conviction to kill us, or make us divided. What did this really accomplish?
I would keep an eye on the movements of the Glomar Explorer unless its been broken up, or ANY deep water salvage vessel in that area.
And also any NOTAMS that seem to be “different”.
I still think it was a US sub, I think it may have been an accident, or done for other reasons, like a shoot down of an unfriendly or dangerous satellite?
I don’t have access to the bit by bit frames and computer enhanced imagery but it certainly looked like a missile launch, buy why no action from NORAD? If the Navy was called to suddenly shoot down a sudden immediate orbital threat I seriously doubt they will tell us why or what it was.
We too could have secret orbital nuke missiles in space, missiles that MAY have been compromised by hacking?
That ought to keep this thread alive for another hundred posts!
Supposing it was a foreign missile one explanation for not firing on it might be that we saw it was headed away from CONUS immediately drew the conclusion that it wasn't a threat and let it go.
The best speculation I have read is that one of our subs had a leaking missile and had to unload it fast. If we see anomalies that hint at failure in flight that fits. The PR embarrassment of an unintended launch of a hot missile on our coastline. Bad timing for 0bambi if that's all it was. lol
LOL Trouble maker. ;-)