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Pentagon Can't Explain Missile Off California
AOL News ^ | 10/11/10 | Pauline Jelinek

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: agitprop; aluminumfoilsale; awe808; california; californiamissile; contrail; missile; mysterymissile; othatmissile; pentagon; tinfoilbrigade; whatmissile
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1 posted on 11/10/2010 10:59:26 AM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Pentagon won’t explain missile off California.


2 posted on 11/10/2010 11:00:55 AM PST by Poison Pill
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To: Eleutheria5

Looked like a Trident launch to me. Did someone spill coffee on the launch console?


3 posted on 11/10/2010 11:01:24 AM PST by rahbert
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To: Eleutheria5

They don’t know what it was,But it wasn’t terrorism..........


4 posted on 11/10/2010 11:01:54 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: Eleutheria5

“We can confirm that there is no threat to our nation,” the statement said. “We will provide more information as it becomes available.”

“more information as it becomes available”. That’s really not what I want to hear.


5 posted on 11/10/2010 11:03:30 AM PST by bereanway (I'd rather have 40 Marco Rubios than 60 Arlen Specters)
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To: Eleutheria5
Just thoughts...

Are we absolutely sure it's not an old video?? That's one thing I can think of that would cause the resulting "no show on radar" or sighting by other planes.

I remember years back about war using holograms (sp???). Could this be an example?

We're getting played by some computer geeks...

6 posted on 11/10/2010 11:03:45 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Eleutheria5

Blue UFO outside DC, missile launch, Carnival Cruise ship low on food, Conan O’Brien coming back to TV...sheesh, do I gotta draw you a map??? It all FITS!


7 posted on 11/10/2010 11:03:57 AM PST by Darkwolf377 ( Mm, your tears are so yummy and sweet!Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! Mm-yummy! --E. Cartman)
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To: Red Badger
Oh, I feel so much safer now that O is President and has the military under his command.

I hope that the press, keep after this until we all know what it really was and who was responsible for it.

8 posted on 11/10/2010 11:04:23 AM PST by Robert357 (D.Rather "Hoist with his own petard!" www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223916/posts)
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I finally saw the video last night. Several times.

It is a simple aircraft contrail. Contrails are a “hobby” of mine. I’ve seen lots like this one. The stills REALLY look like a contrail, and the video even confirms it. You can even see the sun shining off the bottom of the plane. Evening contrails are usually the prettiest.

I’ve also seen planes shining like that with no contrail. They are harder to spot, for obvious reasons.

The only puzzling thing about this is that early reports suggest that someone in an official government capacity was claiming something was launched 35 miles off the coast. That is the part of this story that is “odd”.


9 posted on 11/10/2010 11:04:38 AM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Eleutheria5

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AWE808/history/20101108/1955Z/PHNL/KPHX

U.S. Air flight 808 from Hawaii to Phoenix.


10 posted on 11/10/2010 11:04:46 AM PST by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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To: Eleutheria5

They can explain it... they will not explain it.

LLS


11 posted on 11/10/2010 11:05:10 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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Did someone spill coffee on the launch console?

LOL!

Has anyone else heard the "optical illusion" theory?

Anyway, it's probably just some scheme to get the crazies buzzing conspiracy theories.

In other words, to motivate Obama's base.

12 posted on 11/10/2010 11:06:14 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (every bad idea once seemed good to someone.)
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To: Eleutheria5

In your keywords: “othatmissile”

LOL!


13 posted on 11/10/2010 11:06:47 AM PST by Darkwolf377 ( Mm, your tears are so yummy and sweet!Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! Mm-yummy! --E. Cartman)
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>>Blue UFO outside DC, missile launch, Carnival Cruise ship low on food, Conan O’Brien coming back to TV...sheesh, do I gotta draw you a map??? It all FITS!<<

Add to that the radar cop I passed this morning, and the security door that “coincidentally” would not work this morning. I think it’s all pretty clear what’s going on here!

I’m also not getting any responses to my messages to the home world. That one is really freaking me out because if I don’t get off this stinking planet by mid-January, I’m toast along with the rest of yous!


14 posted on 11/10/2010 11:07:49 AM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: mbarker12474

That’s the one! Thanks!


15 posted on 11/10/2010 11:08:28 AM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Darkwolf377

You forgot to mention Hillary buying a bra twice her size.


16 posted on 11/10/2010 11:10:12 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ( They cry "Piece, piece." And there is no peace.)
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To: Robert357

Think about it.
If it were a enemy sub launch, or surface ship for that matter, do you think the Pentagon of WH would tell us the truth?...........


17 posted on 11/10/2010 11:10:34 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: Eleutheria5

Fire them all and get someone in there who knows and cares.


18 posted on 11/10/2010 11:10:34 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Red Badger

And, I’m sure that the radar systems that blanket each city in the US for aircraft traffic control, and security, have no image; cannot identify the speed; cannot tell the tragectory; and cannot identify the planes transponders; and have no record of a pilot asking for takeoff clearance.

Plane??? Bull Shit!


19 posted on 11/10/2010 11:11:09 AM PST by Noob1999 (Check out my credentials)
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To: Robert357

I thought is was a roman candle fireworks from the celebration party for Barbara Boxer.;)


20 posted on 11/10/2010 11:12:13 AM PST by Bitsy
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