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The FBI is investigating after Continental Airlines pilot reports seeing a 'missile
Mail online ^ | 6/2/09 | Foreign Service

Posted on 06/03/2009 4:58:36 AM PDT by faced

facefwd.com<>The FBI is investigating after a Continental Airlines pilot with military training reported seeing a 'missile or rocket' flying straight at his aeroplane. The pilot spotted the unidentified object flying towards his commuter flight on Friday night at 8.09pm shortly after take-off from Bush Intercontinental Airport in Texas. It barely missed the passenger jet, passing just 100 feet below it. It is not known how many were people on board the regional Continental Express flight to Greenville in South Carolina.

The flight was a Continental Express flight, part of Continental Airlines The pilot immediately contacted officials, who brought in the Federal Aviation Administration to investigate. 'The FAA then contacted the Liberty County department dispatcher and reported their pilot reported an object flying straight at his aircraft and passed 100 feet under it,' Ken DeFoor, chief deputy for the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department, was quoted as saying in local media. 'The pilot, from what we understand, was former military,' a police spokesman said. 'He was able to get the coordinates down real quick.'

Last night the FBI met with the sheriff's department and the FAA to discuss the sighting. 'While we have no information to indicate there was a criminal act we certainly do not rule anything out and certainly would not want to speculate on what it may or may not have been,' an FBI spokeswoman said. Police said local hobbyists do set off rockets in the area, but that a search yielded no evidence of anyone doing so.

They are still debriefing the pilot on what he saw. 'We are going to try and come up with a more definite track of this object and its path,' a spokesman said. 'We are trying to find out where it came from, where it went, and who may be responsible for it.'


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: continentalairlines; houstonairport; houstontexas; missle
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1 question; why isn't this making national news headlines?
1 posted on 06/03/2009 4:58:37 AM PDT by faced
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To: faced

Has another one been fired?


2 posted on 06/03/2009 5:00:15 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: faced

Is this the major disaster Joe Biden told us would be happening within 6 months?


3 posted on 06/03/2009 5:01:13 AM PDT by Mr. K (physically unabel to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: faced
1 question; why isn't this making national news headlines?

Because a late term abortionist wasn't in the aeroplane.

4 posted on 06/03/2009 5:03:36 AM PDT by SampleMan (Socialism enslaves you & kills your soul.)
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To: Mr. K

I think Obama himself is the first disaster. Isn’t it odd that stuff like this does not make the TV news anymore?

/big sarc


5 posted on 06/03/2009 5:04:16 AM PDT by dforest (Anyone dumb enough to have voted for him deserves what they get.. No Pity!)
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To: faced

Muslim whack-job murders a soldier in Arkansas, and now this... and I have heard nothing of either incident from the MSM. Hmmm.....


6 posted on 06/03/2009 5:05:44 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: faced

“1 question; why isn’t this making national news headlines? “

We have NO national news media anymore! A national news media would CARE about the nation.


7 posted on 06/03/2009 5:06:05 AM PDT by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: faced

Roman candle.


8 posted on 06/03/2009 5:06:21 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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To: SampleMan

1 question; why isn’t this making national news headlines?

Because a late term abortionist wasn’t in the aeroplane.

You’re good! (first chuckle this morning!) Sadly it rings pretty true.


9 posted on 06/03/2009 5:07:49 AM PDT by Dudoight
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To: Mr. K
Is this the major disaster Joe Biden told us would be happening within 6 months?

Joe was in Texas Friday night?
10 posted on 06/03/2009 5:13:20 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: faced


Maybe it was just a Rock-it.
11 posted on 06/03/2009 5:13:42 AM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: faced
Your link brings one to a Free Republic search page.

The Daily Mail page has nothing about this story, unless I'm missing it.

Could you please post a working link to the story?

12 posted on 06/03/2009 5:17:35 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: faced

Flashback:

http://dailypundit.com/?p=5520


13 posted on 06/03/2009 5:19:51 AM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) We know how to deal with Iran.)
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To: faced
Sorry, just found it.

Mystery as commercial jet pilot sees 'missile or rocket' flying straight towards his aeroplane

14 posted on 06/03/2009 5:23:47 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: faced

The FBI? Hmmmmm the UFO has big trouble now...


15 posted on 06/03/2009 5:26:29 AM PDT by ninonitti
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The pilot immediately contacted officials, who brought in the Federal Aviation Administration to investigate.

The FAA? While any possible terrorists were speeding from the scene.

It looks like they got around to calling the FBI a day or two later.

16 posted on 06/03/2009 5:27:21 AM PDT by dead
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And why are they just now getting around to telling us the Buenos Aires to Paris plane had a bomb thread!!!!..

Is it they wanted to circulate the 'lightning strike' idea and see if it would stick!

17 posted on 06/03/2009 5:34:37 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: faced
A thread from 2005:

Missile Attack On Passenger Jet?
Radio News | November 28, 2005

Posted on Monday, November 28, 2005 6:49:25 AM by texianyankee


18 posted on 06/03/2009 5:44:00 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: faced

Why does your link only lead to a FR search and not to an article about this? Link to article please.


19 posted on 06/03/2009 5:47:20 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: faced

bump


20 posted on 06/03/2009 5:56:56 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (We either Free America ourselves, or it is midnight for humanity for a thousand years.)
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