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My first post with still photos was here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625609/posts

Many, many people who have seen many many missile launches, agreed with what is so obviously seen in the stills and videos that are there.

However, a number of bloggers have angrily, even screachingly, announced taht lighting up the sky means nothing, that this is a contrail from an airliner approaching LA.

I don’t see it.

I live in north LA, and I see missile launches all the time, and condensation trails too.

This is a missile launch.

For fun, read the 330 posts on the previous thread “Take a look a this photo of the “Mystery Missile” as it rises straight up and then disappears ...”

Link is: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625609/posts

An angry fellow FReeper who thinks I should go back to high school, previously said to me:

“Go to the local high school and get a GED is need be.”

My reply:

Huh? Your post is so poorly written it is hard to answer.

Perhaps when you calm down and become coherent again you will be able to type better ...

I rest my case with the Jane’s expert who said: Undoubtedly a missile, you can tell from the smoke exhaust (not a contrail in the sky, not even similar if you look)

I quote him here:

Doug Richardson, the editor of Jane’s Missiles and Rockets examined the video for the Times of London and said he was left with little doubt.
“It’s a solid propellant missile,” he told the Times. “You can tell from the efflux [smoke].”

Richardson said it could have been a ballistic missile launched from a submarine or an interceptor, the defensive anti-missile weapon used by Navy surface ships.

Maybe he too forgot to get his high school diploma?

and from another FReeper, who no doubt forgot to go to high school (the dog):

“That is a missile launched from a submerged submarine. I have seen several launches and this photo is exactly like the launches I saw.”

and the former Deputy Sec of Defense: “Spectacular! Takes you breath away! Sub launched ICBM !”

I paraphrase him here from the video mentioned earlier, or, if you had a brain, and could write, you could listen and quote him yourself:

Listen to Robert Ellsworth, the former Deputy Secretary of Defense, and former US Ambassador to NATO, and the laughing amazement in his voice as he tells the reporters:

“It is a big missile !!! Spectacular! Breath taking !!! It is a missile! That is not the Taliban. It could be a test firing of an ICBM from a submarine”

BTW: the missile rose from the ground, lit up the whole sky over LA, for 2 minutes (not 10),

and the smoke lingered for 8 more minutes after the missile disappeared to the North.

Not “the missile lingered in the sky for 10 minutes”

No one has said that.

So two experts have called it an ICBM missile, and one ranter who can’t even make a coherent sentence has screamed “contrail”.

Think I will go with the unrefuted experts.

I think, as an intelligent person, I will go with Doug Richardson, the editor of Jane’s Missiles and Rockets, and my own eyes.

It is incredibly obvious.

BTW

Perhaps it is you and not the Former Deputy Secretary of Defense and US Ambassador to NATO or myself who should go back to school and get his diploma.

For everyone else, a bit politer, who wishes to judge for themselves:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2qKMchcgzk

Note that each of the several News 8 reporters matter-of-factly says “That amazing missile launch up in Los Angeles ...” and “trying to get more information on the missile launch” ... and “the Navy doesn’t have a clue”.

In the background you can see some video on the wide screen with the exhaust plume spewing out of the back of the missile as it heads northwards ...

My first post is http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2625609/posts