[lbryce]

Wow. This is the extent of the news update. Welcome to the new world of hi-tech journalism. I expected a bit more verbosity to say the least. Not your father's news service. It may be pithy and succinct and I suppose, reluctantly, the format does work but only in certain specific situations. I emphatically wouldn't want this venue as my only news source.

[SF_Redux]

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/10/31/1350152/delta-vandenberg.html

[lbryce]

I neglected to say that this so-called aviation expert has zero credibility. I remember the cockamamie explanations for TWA flight 800 about sparks in the tank causing the explosion. It was a missile. That’s what people saw. That’s what it was. Just like in this case.

[roses of sharon]

Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Robert Ellsworth, who is also a former Deputy Secretary of Defense, started this by calling it a “big missile”.

[hflynn]

This missle was a message to not just one someone but to many someones. Lets hope that everyone of the intended got the message.

[Gabrial]

Hard to believe what sh*t passes as news.

Gee, I got a “tweet” - must be true

[Errant]

It's moving much too slow to be a missile IMO. Most likely a contrail from an aircraft at a very high altitude.

There's lots of important issues to be concerned about. This isn't one of them but it is a sign of how jumpy everyone is.

[Tolsti2]

Looks like a plane contrail to me. Missile launches move fast, even at 30 miles away. This just hangs for a long time like a subsonic plane.

The ‘true believers’ won’t believe anything less than it was some sort of horrific attack or a show of force by us though, no matter the evidence now.

[stockpirate]

Did they mention that he he the man that designs toilets

[ml/nj]

Top Aviation Journalist Is 100% Convinced That The "Missile" Was A Jet

Top Aviation Journalist is an idiot; or a LIAR.

ML/NJ

[TomGuy]

By end of the week they will be claiming it was nothing more than an errant weather balloon.

[democratsaremyenemy]

If it was a jet well that ought to be easy enough to verify.

All planes are tracked by NORAD and the FAA.

It doesn’t look like contrails looks more like exaust from a solid rocket booster.

Wouldn’t there be other planes in the sky trailing contrails? I see them all the time overhead and there will be many of them, not just one.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Top Aviation Journalist Runs Test Explanation Up Flagpole.

[dalereed]

we saw it and it wasn’t any jet, it was a rocket.

[pissant]

He’s full of crap

[TexasCajun]

Video - You Decide

[COBOL2Java]

Michelle: "Dammit, Barry, keep your hands off the controls!"

[bgill]

Who did this expert vote for?

[Seven plus One]

Appeal to authority

[Nepeta]

Does anyone else remember an incident a few years ago involving airliners and a small missile fired that came very close to them, in the same area around LA?

[jesseam]

it was obviously a 747 taking off on water skiis 35 miles west of LA