[antaresequity]

FBI agents believe it was a flare or a bottle rocket, but say they may never know if that's what it actually was, KYW Newsradio 1060 reported.

Priceless.

The average altitude achievable by a bottle rocket is about 100-200 feet.

The highest altitude flare available for private use from Orion is the SOLAS flare - 900 feet.

A commercial airliner departing LAX over the ocean would be at least 3500 feet

More lies from the government

[Shermy]

"A commercial airliner departing LAX over the ocean would be at least 3500 feet"

Have you ever flown out of LA International? Looked like to me just a couple hundred feet above the beach.

[keat]

Model rockets can fly that high. Not the kind you buy at the hobby store but more exotic models. Some of these bad-boys are approaching the border with space.

[SAMWolf]

Great tagline.

[Jigsaw John]

A commercial airliner departing LAX over the ocean would be at least 3500 feet

Outbound departures take off much lower than that, and hit the shoreline at an altitude of about 500-700 feet. From the runway to the actual waterline is about a half a mile, depending on which runway is used.