I’m not exactly sure what the government is supposed to be hiding here. They launch missiles all the time without lying about them.
Seems to me that if they were hiding something, they could have simply said it was our launch.
As a hypothetical? What if that was a dummy missile launched as a chest-thumping demonstration by a Chinese nuclear sub off the coast of California? I'm not positing that that's what it was, just laying out one answer to what I balieve was your question... why would the Government want to lie about its being a missile.
That's one reason they'd want to lie, and there are at least a hundred others that I could come up with.
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The problem is that they (gov’t) did not launch the missile. They do not want the sheeple to be scared so they just lie about it. Pilots who report unusual things that the gov’t doesn’t want discussed suddelnly find their health and sanity called into question and their flight staus revoked by the FAA (gov’t).
Which is exactly what they should have done.
What this is, is obviously a missile. The only question is who launched it. If it was not one of ours then whose was it? Russian? Chinese? Who else has launch capabilities from an ocean going platform?
Remember those USAF jets that flew across the country with hot nukes? Didn’t it take awhile for that to leak out?
It would have been over in a minute if they had said:
“Yes, routine launch, look for another in a week or so”.