[MindBender26]

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Anybody got any bright ideas?

[TomGuy]

What is unnerving is that it took a local CBS affiliate to get video of the missle, while all the government agencies have apparently been playing Sgt. Schultz [I know nothing].

If it was NOT from a US military mission, many were asleep on the job.

It is even more unnerving that this could have been a foreign submarine giving a demonistration.

[MizSterious]

If they don’t actually know (as they continue to claim), that’s almost more disturbing than any of the scenarios I’ve considered so far.

[Delta Dawn]

Maybe I have watched too much tv lately, but surely, this had to have been picked up on radar. The experts should be able to do the math and determine just where the missle was launched from?

This missile was only harmless because it headed out to sea and not over the mainland.

[Smokin' Joe]

Navy is also supposedly bat sh*t over this because there was no acoustic detection of sub!

If a sub, could have been an advanced Diesel electric boat. They are really quiet (moreso than a nuke, no cooling pumps).

Were there any container ships in the area?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

151 responses and no mention of Iran? There’s been a lot of speculation lately that O might attack Iran to prove his macho. Seems like this could be a Russian or Chinese warning against such an attack.

[freedomtrail]

NORAD knows everything, or anything they want to know.

[Conservative Vet]

NORAD definitely knows if it was a launch. They may not know “who” and are being told to keep quiet so as to avoid panic. When I was in Saudi Arabia right after the Gulf War, the base was alerted mistakenly. A SCUD was fired in Yemen as part of the civil war there and the satellite picked up the launch and it went right to the Command Post where someone mistakenly thought it was from Iraq. Our satellites pick up launches anywhere in the world.

I can see why the Navy would be concerned. I heard about the panic that would ensue when our P3’s would temporarily lose track of Soviet subs off of Alaska. Any foreign subs anywhere near our coasts should be tracked by P3s or SeaWolf attack subs. This could be China making a point. DefCon should’ve been raised if a foreign sub launched a missile off of our coast and Obama should’ve been ready to nuke someone. Scary thought. I’m sure he hates the nuclear football even more than Clinton did.

[D-fendr]

Norad says it ain't a foreign missile or threat:

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.

"We can confirm that there is no threat to our nation, and from all indications this was not a launch by a foreign military," the statement said.

My money is on a contrail, the source for info was posted earlier on this thread. I'll repost my synopsis in favor of contrail.

Missile launch:

Jet contrail off CA coast last year (Mistaken for missile at the time.):

This event:

[visioneer2]

One theory: Earthbound asteroid headed for western hemisphere... missile launched in hopes of deflecting/obliterating before impact... Just a theory...

[A CA Guy]

Drug cartels ub a kevlar coated sub?

[Banjoguy]

It’s a common contrail. The object is traveling toward you, not away from you, and since the contrail has a long persistence, it looks like it emanates from the horizon, thus the illusion that it is a missile traveling away from you.

[Hot Tabasco]

Current guesses... and these are wild guesses

Anybody got any bright ideas?

LOL! No, you got them all.........have you checked in with Michael Rivero?

[PA Engineer]

I’m a bit late to the discussion however I do not buy the “airplane contrail” aka swamp gas explanation. The residual colors are the result of a potassium permanganate oxidizer. I base this on both the video and eyewitness reports. The contrail waviness appears to be a result of gyro flight corrections and not wind shear. JMHO.

[Chattering Class of 58]

Somebody is just jealous of the Norway Spiral, and wanted one of their own. I bet it is a UFO being launched from an undersea base... :)

/tinfoil hat still on

[grey_whiskers]

Anybody got any bright ideas?

Operator: Main screen turn on. (AYBABTU)

[Revel]

Why would this not show up on Radar? I would think the airports should have a record of it.

[Danae]

Navy going Bat S*it! LOL

Bat S*ht is nothing to sneeze at when you are underwater 3 months at a time! LOL

Seriously.....

We have to look at other possible causes. Hubby says it looks like a solid fuel contrail. He knows more than I do, he spent a LOT of time on a boomer.

[agincourt1415]

Smells of something. Accidental launch from our sub or worse a demonstration launch from a foreign sub.

The foreign sub scenario is scary, that would be zero warning to hit L.A.

NORAD would know where it came down. Tracking data and such.

[little jeremiah]

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/11/09/mystery-missle-launch-off-california/#more-27630

Best discussion I’ve seen, go all the way to the end. Knowledgeable people discussing rationally.

(Just pinging a few names from another couple of threads about this. Hope no one minds the ping.)

[L.A.Justice]

Maybe it is SPECTRE...Or Blofeld is trying to blackmail US and Europe by showing off his weapon...I hope that MI-6 and CIA are working together on this matter...

:)