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The video shows a payload rising on a solid-fuel booster rocket. Distance to rocket, maybe 30 to 40 miles seen from a chase angle. You can even see a flame (not on this video, but on the full clip of which this is an extract)

It’s very obviously a rocket.

I agree.

Thanks.

Sorry if letting a former Under Secretary of Defense speak his mind outrages you;

As if bloggers should shout someone down who brings in an informed outside expert’s opinion.

Don’t you think this man’s interview should be seen by Free Republic members? Why not?

He is laughing as he gives the opinion that many others here on FR have also said is so obvious: ICBM launch, lights up the sky over LA for 2 minutes, missile smoke plume, corkscrew pattern, disappears heading for North Pacific or points beyond.

I have yet to see a single post (out of 330, popular topic) refute the expert Doug Richardson, the editor of Jane’s Missiles and Rockets,

given to the Times of London

because they can’t.

You can insult me and try to shout me down but two experts have said what I have said:

“ICBM missile launch from a submarine.” Clearly.

I’m going with the two experts in this case rather than the hysterical and rude bloggers.

Try reading the comments from your fellow FReepers, many of whom bring experience and expertise to the discussion instead of insults.

I will quote two from military men:

“I have seen many missile launches and that video sure looked exactly like some SLBM launches.”

and another:

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

Hmmmm .... ICBM launch off our coast and two polite posts are “forum abuse”.

I don’t agree.

I think the US government did not expect this, is shocked and stunned, doesn’t know what to say and doesn’t know what to do;

and is very ineptly “covering it up” although they were caught so flat footed that they haven’t really done even much of a job of that !

"... Try reading the comments from your fellow FReepers, many of whom bring experience and expertise to the discussion instead of insults. I will quote two from military men:"

Take it from me, a very long time registered forum participant on FR: Many opinions here from self-proclaimed 'military men' don't amount to jack squat.

They don't hold any more weight than any other Freeper who just stumbled through the door and started posting their opinions.

Honestly, using some other FReeper's opinion as evidence of something really isn't evidence at all. In fact, it probably works against you.