From: http://www.stephenvillelights.com/
Posted on 11/09/2010 8:05:31 AM PST by Gennie
(CBS) A mysterious missile launch off the southern California coast was caught by CBS affiliate KCBS's cameras Monday night, and officials are staying tight-lipped over the nature of the projectile.
CBS station KFMB put in calls to the Navy and Air Force Monday night about the striking launch off the coast of Los Angeles, which was easily visible from the coast, but the military has said nothing about the launch.
KFMB showed video of the apparent missile to former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Robert Ellsworth, who is also a former Deputy Secretary of Defense, to get his thoughts.
Scroll down for KFMB video showing the launch.
Video here
"It's spectacular… It takes people's breath away," said Ellsworth, calling the projectile, "a big missile".
Magnificent images were captured by the KCBS news helicopter in L.A. around sunset Monday evening. The location of the missile was about 35 miles out to sea, west of L.A. and north of Catalina Island.
A Navy spokesperson told KFMB it wasn't their missile. He said there was no Navy activity reported in the area Monday evening.
On Friday night, Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, launched a Delta II rocket, carrying an Italian satellite into orbit, but a sergeant at the base told KFMB there had been no launches since then.
Ellsworth urged American to wait for definitive answers to come from the military.
When asked, however, what he thought it might be, the former ambassador said it could possibly have been a missile test timed as a demonstration of American military might as President Obama tours Asia.
"It could be a test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine … to demonstrate, mainly to Asia, that we can do that," speculated Ellsworth.
Ellsworth said such tests were carried out in the Atlantic to demonstrate America's power to the Soviets, when there was a Soviet Union, but he doesn't believe an ICBM has previously been tested by the U.S. over the Pacific.
Officially, at least, the projectile remains a mystery missile.
George is on Rush’s show now LOL. I always said no one is running the country or protecting us we are on our own. On a lighter note Rush asked W if he was using a teleprompter.
Since when do airplanes move that fast with one contrail? One engine? ummmm hummmm.
This was no small missile by any description.
I guess U.S. military intelligence has never considered the possibility of a 747 contrail illuminated by the sunset, huh?
Thats what I have been asking.
Article will be updated throughout the day
Mysterious Missile Launched in Southern California, Pentagon CANNOT Confirm Who Fired It
Sources have indicated that there was not only a missile in Southern California but also in Phoenix and on the east coast. Whether this is true remains to be seen.
Jesse Ventura, America’s biggest hot air balloon. You know all those UFO’s? That’s Jesse flying from location to location for his show.
good question...I was asking that way back on post #82.
Re: Electronic warfare?
Scenario 3
good question...I was asking that on post #82.
I don’t know if this is true, but I read about a year or so ago, that since all of our personal computers are built in China now, that the Chinese have engineered “back-door” access into all of them. The article claimed that, furthermore, the Chinese have figured out a way to activate this access via the electric power grid.
From: http://www.stephenvillelights.com/
That’s what I’m wondering, too. Where in the heck did it come down?
That was a single contrail. Airplanes moving that fast that high have more than one contrail. They have one for each engine.
“Sources have indicated that there was not only a missile in Southern California but also in Phoenix and on the east coast. Whether this is true remains to be seen.”
Now that would suck big time if we are that incompetent as a nation. Wake up America. Obama the Manchurian candidate is failing us.
Ping
This is a hilarious lunch time diversion! Has no one ever seen an airplane contrail at sunset? I see them just like this all the time in fly over country were is is a little more humid. With the sun reflecting from aircraft too.
Re: who is with Zero in India / Indonesia?
I guess the clan + top biz leaders ... “Obama will also spend some time with the large U.S. delegation which includes such leaders as Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi (born in India), David M. Cole, the CEO of Honeywell, and CEO Terry McGraw from McGraw Hill”
Well, to answer your question, he was just on the Rush Limbaugh program selling books.
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