[Finny]

My comment was addressed to wideminded! Wideminded, someone who apparently thinks that in spite of the folks you and I know to have much more hands-on working knowledge applicable to the event, they must be quite stupid because wideminded knows better.

Just like the camerman, who has been flying in copters and filming LA skies for ELEVEN YEARS, is so stupid that he couldn't tell the difference between an airline contrail and a missile shot. *sigh*

I included you in the post address as a courtesy ping! My goof for not making it clear that my comment was addressed to wideminded ......... whose mind is SO wide that it must be infinitely better equipped to assess things like missile launches and contrails that people who are actual professionals, like the AF officers you so wisely give more credence than wideminded. :^)

[lookout88]

Oh ok. Posts get fuzzy when you don’t read the whole thing. I am getting very concerned because this is really looking like a bungled cover-up. I trust these guys to know what they are looking at. Hey, read the book “One Second After”. It puts a perspective on what could happen. I don’t know for sure what this was. I am just forming an opinion from intelligent people who know more than I do. I am beginning to think we are in real trouble.

[TigersEye]

Just like the camerman, who has been flying in copters and filming LA skies for ELEVEN YEARS, is so stupid that he couldn't tell the difference between an airline contrail and a missile shot. *sigh*

I have seen thousands of contrails in the sky, some after the fact and some as they were being made, some would have looked a lot like a missile launch in a still pic of them. I have never once seen a contrail and thought to myself, even for a moment, "hmmmm, that looks like a missile!"

That photographer's whole working life revolves around observing the sky and the ground in order to make a visual record of whatever might be newsworthy or unusual and he did.

[wideminded]

Wideminded, someone who apparently thinks that in spite of the folks you and I know to have much more hands-on working knowledge applicable to the event, they must be quite stupid because wideminded knows better.

Suppose it was a group of doctors who were diagnosing a patient by looking at a picture rather that through direct examination. They could easily be wrong despite all their accumulated years of experience. It is very sad to say it, but this is a similar case.

Just like the camerman, who has been flying in copters and filming LA skies for ELEVEN YEARS, is so stupid that he couldn't tell the difference between an airline contrail and a missile shot. *sigh*

I'm not sure that the cameraman stated a definite opinion on what it was, just that it looked like it could be a missile shot. Also he did say that he saw the same phenomenon on two other nights. Why is no one talking about those "missiles"?

In both of these cases you saying that we should accept the opinion of "authority" without question rather than thinking for ourselves.