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.
On the other hand, there was the telephone pole sized object that zoomed past a Continental jet a mile high over Conroe, north of Bush Intercontinental Airport a couple years ago. That was blamed on “private enthusiasts” too, except for those who said “never happened.”
I thought that... for a second.
” As an aviation enthusiast I’ve seen several aircraft contrails that appear to rise from the horizon. It is all about perspective.”
Sure, but a close up shows fire coming from a cylander.
Yes, and it came from the Navy’s backyard. Most likely explanation...and the DoD denies this stuff all the time.
“Maybe that missile was shot to make him think twice about coming back across the Pacific.”
Perfect excuse for the usurper to declare that he is going to rule the US in exile. How convenient.
PAVE PAWS was designed to track Sea Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBM). SLBMs, like ICBMs, are, well, BALLISTIC. That means they go way, way up high, and then fall to their targets. The computers used by PAVE PAWS, once they begin tracking an SLBM, compute back to the launch point, and compute forward to the rentry point, or points if it’s a MIRV. Throw in wind speeds, payload, and telementry data gathered from ANY means, which is also fed into the computers, and they can tell you who’s getting killed; incinerated and radiated. Even if they don’t track the second the missile is launched, they can compute the ENTIRE flight.
Hey, what can I say, but that’s rocket science!
I think Obammy shaves with that razor every day. Sometimes twice.
Fox reporting again on this. Confirmed missle from sub and location classified...
We will never find out folks.
a) the public is given clear warning
b) pilots are given a clear warning
c) other countries are given a warning
In the event that it wasn't ours, the pentagon would have been better off saying is WAS. But that hasn't happened. Fact is that if it wasn't for the armada of ships in the east Pacific with The Unmentionable One, this would have been blown off as a mere accident.
This was no accident people, and it wasn't us. Time for us to start digging for some answers.
Did it scare the fecal matter out of the country LAST time the reds tried to move neeookes into Cuber? You bet it did. Which would be scarier, hearing about a UFO launch, or having Bremerton WA go up in a mushroom cloud? Or Sacramento?
PAVE PAWS was designed to track Sea Launched Ballistic Missiles ...And there you have it.
You still can't countermand the laws of physics ... and viewing/observing an event at 'ground' (or sea) level +100 miles from a RADAR site at uWave (or even UHF) frequencies can't be done ...
"Curvature of the earth" and "line of sight" factors don't you know ...
(face palm) yea, like NORAD has just ONE base in Az, and none of those other non-existent bases don’t communicate to one another when an event occurs. Nah.... back to buttering your toast.
Maybe Obamao wanted to do it as a pre-election stunt last week and the time change this weekend screwed them up. Maybe one of those leftover non-Y2K processors finally went haywire?
So much for Homeland Security.
No access to Fox right now... so they said it was a sub but they didn’t say whose sub?
Shep is freaking a bit on this...Saying if it is classified just say it is don’t say they don’t know...
I do agree it is odd this news broke 18 hours after it happened.
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