Posted on 11/10/2010 10:59:19 AM PST by Eleutheria5
WASHINGTON -The Pentagon said Tuesday it did not know what created a vapor trail that crossed the skies off the Southern California coast and resembled a missile launch. Video posted on the CBS News website shows an object flying through the evening sky Monday that left a large contrail, or vapor trail. A news helicopter owned by KCBS, a CBS affiliate in Los Angeles, shot the video. Pentagon officials were stumped by the event. "Nobody within the Department of Defense that we've reached out to has been able to explain what this contrail is, where it came from," Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said. While the vapor cloud captured on video resembled that created by a rocket in flight, military officials said they didn't know of any launches in the area. Lapan said that "all indications" were that the Defense Department was not involved with the object. One expert called it an optical illusion. "It's an airplane that is heading toward the camera and the contrail is illuminated by the setting sun," said John Pike, director of the U.S.-based security analyst group globalsecurity.org. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, issued a statement jointly with the U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, saying that the contrail was not the result of a foreign military launching a missile. It provided no details. "We can confirm that there is no threat to our nation," the statement said. "We will provide more information as it becomes available."
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Me thinks thou doth protest too much.
If Lassie says Jimmy is stuck in the well, and I go see Jimmy stuck in the well, I really don’t care if a dog was the source of the information.
And your obsession with the identity of ONE of the sources, while ignoring the content of the information, is very “liberalesque” in the debating style you are employing.
We must not be looking at the same video. i never seen sparks come off planes except when the concord blew up.
No. It is irrelevant.
Evidence is evidence.
>>You people have been quoting a BIRD PHOTOGRAPHER and his blog as one of your “It wasn’t a missile” experts.<<
“You people”?!
;)
I am reminded of the title of Glenn Becks book from last year.
OMG! He's a bird photographer? Well, he obviously he doesn't know what he's talking about then. /s
By the way, who are YOU? Maybe we should be looking into that before we pay any attention to you.
The video I saw contained artifacts that could be “interpreted” as sparks.
I’ve gotta be frank here: I was buying that this was a missile at first, before I saw the video. Then I saw the video.
It’s a stinkin’ airplane contrail. I even watched it over and over to see if I was missing something. The more I looked at details, the more evidence there was that it is an airplane in level flight. I say this as someone who has been fascinated with contrails his whole life.
Heck, I remember the contrails left by B-36’s when I was a kid. I’ve photographed them myself on many occasions.
This is clearly an airplane contrail. The ONLY thing that puzzles me about this is why someone in an official capacity would claim that there was a water launch 35 miles off shore. They are full of excrement.
Dogs don’t talk. So why would you follow his instructions without finding out more about this “talking dog”?
It’s a common contrail. The object is traveling toward you, not away from you, and since the contrail has a long persistence, it looks like it emanates from the horizon, thus the illusion that it is a missile traveling away from you.
Seems pretty clear to me.
So what's the explanation?
If you really want to know, read his site yourself. He can explain it better than I can in translation.
It's an interesting site. I read through all of it (including the comments) several months ago. I learned a lot.
>>Dogs don’t talk. So why would you follow his instructions without finding out more about this “talking dog”?<<
OUTED! YOU ARE A LIBERAL! You have no sense of humor. ;)
Please explain how the east side of the rising plume is bright when the sun is in the west?
Please explain how the east side of the rising plume is bright when the sun is in the west?
I stayed in a Holiday Inn.
I’m far from a liberal.
Your lack of curiosity about the backgrounds and expertise of these “experts” is typical of the liberal mind’s lack of curiosity about the background and expertise of The Kenyan (aka The Talking Dog).
I saved 20% on my car insurance.
Please send me the link. Thank you.
Some of us can distinguish the difference between a source being the Soviet Propaganda Ministry and a source being some inconsequential flunky who likes to take pictures of contrails. The credibility of the former is automatically suspect, while the credibility of the latter is based on the merits of his evidence on its face.
Evidence is indeed evidence.
Some sunset contrails.....in video.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=binUnnQb_rg
not buying it.....
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