[Ben Mugged]

But a sub-launched missile fits all the data.

Which of the following FACTS does the "sub-launched missile " definition fill?

1. There was no radar track from the FAA Los Angeles Regional Radar, Point Mugu NAS or Vandenberg AFB.
2. The DSP satellites which can detect the launch of a model rocket and send alerts to several command centers did not detect a launch.
3. Not one aircraft, ship, police officer, or surfer reported a launch.

[buccaneer81]

2. The DSP satellites which can detect the launch of a model rocket and send alerts to several command centers did not detect a launch.

Says Who?

Were you at Cheyenne Mountain at the time?

[bigbob]

Do you KNOW there was no radar track? Or that the official at the FAA SAID there was no radar track?

Folks, if someone managed to light a candle 30 miles off the Los Angeles coast, do you really thing the US government would admit it???

Think about what might happen if they did. Mass panic? A run on the banks? Riots?

Note I said “might happen”. Then ask yourself, what is likely written into the contingency plans for such an event?

[Robert A Cook PE]

But a sub-launched missile fits all the data.

Which of the following FACTS does the “sub-launched missile “ definition fill?

1. There was no radar track from the FAA Los Angeles Regional Radar, Point Mugu NAS or Vandenberg AFB.
2. The DSP satellites which can detect the launch of a model rocket and send alerts to several command centers did not detect a launch.
3. Not one aircraft, ship, police officer, or surfer reported a launch.

1. Radar tracks for non-highlighted/non-identified returns of a spurious nature lasting only a few seconds are only light flashes on the screen. They'd get only a few returns before the radar return (the beams are for targeting aircraft at low elevations - 0-45,000 feet - not for tracking missiles headed into the 150,000+ levels) would get too small to be recorded/tracked on the computer screens. We have many years since “raw” returns from the scope are actually plotted or even seen by the ATC processors. Everything has to be tagged and labelled to be put up on the air control screens.

Vandenburg and the others? they could have tracked iot - if they were turned on. Why run a very expensive, hard-to-repair radar and keep a crew on-site 24 hours per day/365 days per year for a missile testing center launching only a few polar shots every year?

2. DSP satellites are not aimed near the US coast. They are used for nuke blasts/test flashes/meteor impacts detections outside the US. Detecting launches of missiles from the US coast line? No.