Pentagon, NASA experts say mystery plume was plane (Well, there you have it. Move along, Folks.)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 11/11/10 | John Antczak - AP

[NormsRevenge]

LOS ANGELES – The Pentagon and NASA experts have determined that a billowing contrail seen streaking into the skies above Southern California was likely caused by an airliner and not a missile.

The phenomenon recorded Monday evening by a TV news helicopter created a media sensation and a vapor trail of commentary across the Internet about the possibility of a secret missile firing. But the military insisted it knew of no rockets launched in the area.

Defense Department spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said Wednesday that officials were satisfied it was an airplane contrail distorted by camera angle, winds and other environmental factors including a setting sun.

Military experts studied the video and talked to all government agencies that might have been involved in a missile launch and none reported having launched one, Lapan said.

[NormsRevenge]

Move along Folks, show's over, just so much vapour, nothing else..

[Doogle]

..???.."and I got skinny brown turtles in my litter box"

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

What about the one at Luke AFB in AZ just a few days before?

http://www.nwofighters.org/mysterious-missile-launch-over-southern-california-connected-to-phoenix-missile/

[NormsRevenge]

apologies in advance to anyone that thinks this thread is

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Move along Folks, show’s over, just so much vapour, nothing else..

Not buying it. It’s Unicorn farts.

[BenLurkin]

The sky is burning over New York City!

[NormsRevenge]

That's pretty cool stuff,, any shots of the NYC event?

Keep the faith and Remember, Baby! It's always HaPPy Hour somewhere! clink!

[UCANSEE2]

It was Obama who took some Indonesians onboard AF-1 for a special flight mimicking the path of Muhammed on his black horse (wasn’t the horse named Barak?) flying to the moon.

[UCANSEE2]

That's pretty cool stuff,, any shots of the NYC event?

Is it the same rocket the pilot videotaped in LA?

Wow. What a range.

[Camerican]

I was actually at Luke that night (I’m a civilian). An F-16 pilot I spoke to about it told me that it was probably a flight test of an F-16 following engine maintenance or repair. He said that after work is done on the engines, the pilots really put the planes through their paces to make sure things are working right - including high speed, steep climbs.

[ncfool]

Glad it was not a Chinese missile:

http://www.china-military.tk/blog/wap/index-wap2.php?p=122

[SF_Redux]

since it is so easy anymore to keep records, of they said which flight it was???

[lormand]

It was space aliens. I am such a conspiracy theory nut, I just blame all unexplained things on space aliens since their technology can't be explained anyway.

/ sarc

It looks like a jet's contrail to me.

[BenLurkin]

It touched down in upper Manhattan...

[NormsRevenge]

Those birds can make a heck of a lot of racket and put out a pile of plumeage,, cool watching ‘em climb like that..

[DonaldC]

“since it is so easy anymore to keep records, of they said which flight it was???”

That is a pretty key piece of missing data that gives folks pause about their explanation.

[bkepley]

Years later no one remembered the second Pearl Harbor..attacked on both the east and west coasts..no one was held to account..

[NormsRevenge]

LOL.. good thing Rush got out of there when he did.. :-}

[lonevoice]

"...a billowing contrail seen streaking into the skies above Southern California was likely caused by an airliner"

Plausible deniability.

[OneWingedShark]