Posted on 11/11/2010 11:50:13 AM PST by 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.
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That's because it's still flying. They just saw it over NYC yesterday.
LOL!
Afterburners, my ass.
Notice that the spot on the skinny end of the contrail is the same colour and same brightness as the clouds surrounding the fat end of the contrail. The entire scene is illuminated from below by the setting sun. The contrail is reflecting the sunlight in the same way the surrounding clouds are.
Kinda doubt it, he blogs mostly about birding until this, but have at it: Time to Think. Musings by Liem Bahneman.
Can’t argue with the methodology, just the conclusion. MHEB never travels in a straight line.
See post 25.
I don’t think it was a secret government project. They wouldn’t have launched it where it could have been seen from shore. They would have shut down the airspace to prevent hitting an aircraft. It would have been done from Vandenberg AFB or in the middle of Pacific. The government would have a credible cover-story ready and could have prevented all this guessing.
If a missile was launched from our own waters, it would be a colossal embarassment of Obama and the chain of command in the military. It is no wonder that they would say this.
Nice close ups of jet contrails. Unfortunately, the pics of the Pacific incident was of contrails much further away.
He told the Christian Science Monitor, “It’s not an aircraft contrail. That I’m confident of. It looks like a big missile, but who knows what a contrail looks like from long range.” He told the newspaper that a review of the video shows twisting movements consistent with maneuvers that long-range ICBMs perform. The contrail “has the spirals you would see in an advanced solid-rocket missile,” he said.
Postol explained that the failure of FAA air-traffic radar to detect the source of the contrail suggested that it was a missile, which would move so fast that it would appear only as a single blip on the screen. On the other hand, he said, NORAD would certainly have detected a missile: “There is no doubt that the North American Air Defense Command early-warning satellites would observe this,” he told the Monitor.
Naval analyst Raymond Pritchett told Wired.com, “When someone makes an unannounced launch what looks to be a ballistic missile 35 miles from the nation’s second largest city (at sea in international waters), and 18 hours later NORAD still doesn’t have any answers at all—that complete lack of information represents a credible threat to national security. If NORAD can’t answer the first and last question, then I believe it is time to question every single penny of ballistic missile defense funding in the defense budget.
NORTHCOM needs to start talking about what they do know, rather than leaving the focus on what they don’t know.”
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Ted Postol is a moron who insists it's impossible to intercept a ballistic missile ... this insistence in the face of the facts that both USA and USSR demonstrated the ability to do so in the late 1960s.
Now, we're supposed to believe something he says about missiles why???
Ted Postol is a moron who insists it's impossible to intercept a ballistic missile ... this insistence in the face of the facts that both USA and USSR demonstrated the ability to do so in the late 1960s.
Now, we're supposed to believe something he says about missiles why???
Well if those rascals in the US corporate media are accepting it I ain't buyin' it.
And yes, it bears repeating.
[Contrails are never that close to the horizon]
I agree, my guess whomever took some of those pictures was using telephoto lenses.
What I was trying to show is the NUMBER of trails shown as opposed to the single propulsion in the missile photos and they WERE closer to the horizon.
Likely? As in “Barack Hussein 0bama is likely a citizen of the United States?”
And the smoking contrail streaking from the ground up to TWA 800 just before the explosion was really just a hot piece of metal falling to earth after the plane exploded.
Next move: Have the SAC of the FBI’s NY Division start harassing all witnesses and arresting anyone who questions the official findings.
There’s just something about Democrat administrations...
“When someone makes an unannounced launch what looks to be a ballistic missile 35 miles from the nation’s second largest city (at sea in international waters), and 18 hours later NORAD still doesn’t have any answers at all—that complete lack of information represents a credible threat to national security.NORAD detects missile launches; no launch, no detection, no "credible threat to national security". They're not responsible for info on commercial airline activity.
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