With all of the hundreds of witnesses, many who took video, wouldn't one have come forward and said "I saw it pass over the coast and travel to the east?" Instead everyone, including the government, is reporting that it traveled away from the coast.
Just watched the CBS video again...still looks like South to North to me. I have seen nothing from the government saying anything about a direction of travel...as far as I know the government is saying only that it wasn’t a missile (ours or a hostile). I have seen nothing about “witnesses” either...just people that have looked at the edited chopper footage. Are there reports from people “on the beach”? I am still open-minded, but leaning towards Alaska Air Flight #225 or #221.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ASA225
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ASA221
http://www4.passur.com/san.html (zoom out and call up archive from yesterday at 5:15pm or so.)