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.
Or the FAA NOTAM that everyone seems to be posting here is in error, showing a DTG that is a day after the test.
Not too hard to believe that the information from DOD to FAA got garbled in transmission, leading to an erroneous NOTAM.
The other possibilities are all too terrible to contemplate.
The technical problem is the missile was built during a leap year and its launch timer was off by a day.
/sarc
I could too. But, it is interesting to see what is being posted on other sites.
Also, the author was talking about the Phoenix launch trail, not the LA launch trail.
Patrick AFB near Cocoa Beach, FL tracks nuke bursts — I wonder how frenzied they are now?
Fox News just said it was an accident I think they moved on to another story? We will never know.
Why do you say they don’t protect the borders. Look at Brownsville, Tex. Only 150 folks killed in Mexico last week across from Brownsville.
Trump.
They weren’t in the air lanes behind or in-line with TWA800 ...
Now that would make sense....but would think there would still be a NOTAM that would have to have been filed...
Laz,
It is not MY STORY.
I just found it in cyberspace and thought it was interesting. I did not author it.
Andy
A DNC operative opined on tee vee recently that one way Bammy could regain popularity is if there was an attack on the US like worked for Clinton in the Okla. city bombing.
That is reassuring, huh? Also a general recently published a book and claimed a Clinton official suggested a false flag event involving sacrificing a military air plane and pilot over Iraq in order go give Clinton the excuse to attack Saddam. The general refused.
LOL
1. One guy out of the hundreds of thousands watching cable news is the only one who noticed that the rising nose graphic appeared a mere 5 minutes into the original coverage instead of weeks or months later and that the top secret National Security Agency were kind enough to put their name on it. Or ...
2. He's wrong.
Even for you Occam's Razor should indicate the #2 is way more plausible.
BTW I think there might be some holes in the official government story, specifically with regard to the radar data, but in that case there is some hard evidence. You have nothing to rely on but your memory. You memory does not agree with what everyone else saw who was watching the same coverage.
Plus the story is hard to believe for other reasons. Since you're making a big claim you need big evidence to get other people to believe it. Maybe if you had some other evidence that you were the most observant and trustworthy person in the world with the best memory ...
Who am I gonna believe? Trustworthy you, or my damned LYING eyes?
Since you're not looking at the original news report right now, I am not claiming that there is anything wrong with your eyes.
I see no matter what anybody posts, you refuse to open your eyes to facts. I am done conversing with you.
Well within PAVE PAWS capability:They won't see the launch, the RADAR horizon at that distance from Beale ~ 10,000 feet ...
(PAVE PAWS not OTH RADAR).
For that there is Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
So the choices so far?
1. China is going to meet with Obama soon.
They are VERY unhappy over our monetary policies.
2. Iran is going on line with a full blown nuclear program.
May want to show muscle? The Islam way.
Someone call BUSH!!!!!
I’m sorry-that seemed rude, didn’t it? Just find this entire situation so utterly baffling! This is what happens when we have a media we can’t trust- I haven’t heard anyone mention the president in connection to this.
What did Rahmbo say?
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