Posted on 11/09/2010 4:39:10 PM PST by lbryce
I do remember an incident of a airline pilot noticing what looked like a rocket whiz past his window. I thought what they determined was that a rocketry group was launching models without a permit or plan or too close to the airport.
Well, I wouldn't rule out a throttle back for visual effect but doubt it.
I'm thinkin' Michael Rivero is already on the case........
I respectfully disagree. Watch the helicopter in the foreground and you get a better perspective of the acceleration, and it's not accelerating. No big flame from rocket motors, just a glint from sun reflecting off of a shiny aircraft at altitude.
A ballistic missile doesn't want to accelerate to orbital velocity. It'd go into orbit and miss the target. The effects of distance and the viewer's angle vs. the ballistic arc are huge. Post 27 is right.
it was obviously a 747 taking off on water skiis 35 miles west of LA
And that was the ONLY plane in the sky at that time? Off the coast of CA? In the whole visible sky? I don’t think so.
No to the distance it covered without seeing it in more detail to fix a relative distance to ground objects but that detail is not needed to know it was not a commercial aircraft. An SRB contrail is distinctive and this was it. The other point is that afterburners are required to give off any resemblence of a white hot ignition at the exhaust of a jet engine but the smokey contrail is not indicative of a jet afterburner.
I too have watched a shuttle launch, STS-101 Atlantis. As a flight goes down-range they look like they are traveling slow but you know they hauling butt.
I can see the Vandenbereg launches from my living room and while I didn’t witness this incident it sure looks like a launch to me.
Honestly.
The interesting thing is, during the next 5 days, the next one might not be just a contrail, but this ain't the Tipping Point. When destruction comes from the sky, it's going to be solar in nature, not chemical.
Relax. Go get some cash out of the ATM. Buy extra food. Get water filtration capability. Buy an extra box of ammo. Read a Bible verse.
But this ain't Defcon 4.
My only experience with contrails is watching them where I grew up in Maine. Our home was surrounded by acres of hay fields and I'd lay in the field for hours watching the aircraft leaving trails in the sky. It always seemed there were hundreds of them at once and you really couldn't make out the airplanes too well without binoculars.
These contrails would take a good long time to travel across the sky and I sure wasn't 35 miles away from them!
Perhaps the tried and true "swamp gas" would be a better play.
What airplane has a continous flame in it’s exhaust?
Twitter is hardly “BREAKING NEWS”.
Also, the UFO doesn't seem to be traveling very far before the upper level winds distort the contrail a lot. It looks to me like it's traveling at subsonic speeds. An ICBM would be into multiple mach speeds at that altitude.
I still think it was an aircraft.
I was talking about the initial ascent of the Shuttle viewed from five miles away.
Obviously the further away one is the slower everything appears; which is why the comment that some mistook it for a missile because of their viewing angle is so absurd.
ML/NJ
Hmm. This is a very intriguing item. Thanks very much for posting it.
INDEED.
I figure it’s the Chinese flexing their muscles in desperation over our devaluing the dollar. When this administration finally collapses the dollar it’ll be bad for Americans but it’ll be worse for the Chinese because we can then repay them with Monopoly money. After all their boasting about owning our debt and our being so indebted to them - it’s like WE now have them on OUR leash. They want to call in our debt ? OK , we’ll just print up some more. Our debt used to be a large part of their economic strength. Ooops ! Sorry ‘bout that. (And - Nobody in our military wants to admit the Chinese could sneak a sub in that close.)
I believe it's a reflective artifact of sunlight. I'm not an image analysis expert, but look at this:
http://uncinus.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/4/
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