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L.A. contrail a missile launch? Retired general thinks so (op-ed)
Daily Inter Lake.com ^ | Sunday, November 21, 2010 2:00 am | Updated: 8:13 am, Sun Nov 21, 2010. | Jim Cash, retired brigadier general, U.S. Air Force

Posted on 11/21/2010 11:31:21 PM PST by TigersEye

Sliding silently under the mud, muck and fog of national politics, is a current event that makes Bill Clinton’s excursion into the world of elderly sex look tame in comparison. This time the nation’s national security is truly threatened in my opinion, and it involves not only a weak president with limited problem-solving ability, but leadership at the highest levels in the Pentagon as well. The American people would do well to demand a full investigation by an unbiased group, and let the chips fall where they may.

I am referring to the “missile shot” taken off the California coast recently, and the lame response by NORAD, the Pentagon and the White House itself.

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In my opinion, there is absolutely no doubt that what was captured on video off the coast of California was a missile launch, was clearly observed by NORAD, assessed by a four-star general within minutes, and passed to the president immediately. That is the way the system works, and heads fall if there is a failure. This is one of the most important tenets of national defense and its sole purpose of protecting the American people. Even the smallest failure in this system gets intense scrutiny at the highest level.

Now, the question that still must be answered is why NORAD’s muted response was simply that North America was not threatened, and later our government approved the lame excuse that the picture recorded was simply an aircraft leaving a contrail. This decision was made far above the four-star level, and because the system in place demands it, was made by the president himself.

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To: justa-hairyape; Hardraade
Was looking at the Bob Hope Flight monitor and trying to find that plane/helicopter shown in front of the missile. Only thing I could see that was not labeled as a medium to large passenger airline, was a E120 plane. Saw no Cessna's or Helicopters in that area. Image of that plane is below. Could it be this plane type ?

I think you may be correct about the aircraft type, but will go back and look. I think we won't get a rock solid identification, though...the image isn't good enough. However, the truly, truly awesome aviation expert Hardraade says it was going backwards, and therefore cannot be a fixed wing aircraft. He says it was a USN Chinook with a dipping sonar, off to chase the ChiCom sub.

So, you guys should get your stories straight. Otherwise,someone might think one of you is a planeloader mole. Maybe you, hairyape, because you don't have sufficeint devotion to the ASW Chinook theory. ;-)

281 posted on 11/23/2010 9:05:33 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: justa-hairyape

No. Helicopter. Two rotors. Helos move a bit differently, you know. Go look at the craft moving into the frame. And of course an ad-hoc emergenct .mil thing would not be mentioned on any flight monitor site.

I’m not going to discuss this any further with what is pretty clearly plants with an agenda. Have at it, folks ;).


282 posted on 11/23/2010 9:22:56 AM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Mr. Silverback

FReepMail for you...


283 posted on 11/23/2010 9:25:12 AM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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To: justa-hairyape; kanawa; TXnMA
Thank you! :^) Kanawa, see, I knew I didn't underestimate you, but you underestimated yourself, you sweetie! Your first impression was CORRECT. You and all FReepers who dare to truly study these photos side by side and analyze the light physics that prove a vertical launch, should TRUST your brain and have more confidence in your own abilitity to identify what you see. Granted, there is a sophisticated effort of folks trying to convince you of an impossibility. They're pretty smart .... but you're smarter.

Absolutely, one can ONLY be 100 % certain it was a vertical plume: the shaded side away from the setting sun is FACING EAST. On a contrail, the shaded side away from the setting sun is facing UP, where no human can see it unless they are in an aircraft ABOVE the contrail looking down.

The lighting in Leyvas' video proves with CERTAINTY a vertical launch and a north-west arcing trajectory. One hundred percent.

284 posted on 11/23/2010 10:06:04 AM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: Quix; justa-hairyape
Quix, there's no following and no cult with regard to the angle of the sun. It is pure, essential physics. Anyone who insists that the Leyvas video is of a horizontal contrail, let alone an east-bound one, is either deliberately lying or refuses to acknowledge what IS. There is zero question. It is not a matter of opinion or of interpretation. It is a matter of physics. The lighting of the west-setting sun makes it crystal clear: in order for the plume in Leyvas' video to exist, with a good 2/3 of it obviously facing east and away from the light source, it MUST be a vertical column. It would be literally impossible for a horizontal column to be so lit, because the part facing away from the light source is facing UP. Heavenward, where we on the ground cannot see it.

This is truth. Plain truth.

285 posted on 11/23/2010 10:21:49 AM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: Finny

I’m easy.

You convinced me long ago. LOL.

Fascinating topic sociologically and psychologically.

You’ve done great work.

Thanks tons.


286 posted on 11/23/2010 10:33:16 AM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix
Quix, you are too kind and you are correct that it's fascinating sociologically and psychologically.

I did not convince you of anything. Your brain computed truth. Everyone who looked at this video and immediately saw a missile launch, were computing all that same information with regard to light angles, etc., subconsciously, intuitively. Our subconcious powers are mighty and it is idiotic to ignore or work against them.

Outsiders of Free Republic who are working diligently, cleverly, and with practiced deliberate skill to deceive many good FReepers, are hoaxers. They are HOAXERS trying to portray the Leyvas shot as a horizontal contrail, and they're counting on the trait of human nature to disregard the subconscious' wisdom, and appeal to the illusion of controled "smarts" that the conscious mind presents. Some people are literally being persuaded that UP is EAST. Or rather, they are allowing themselves to be persuaded of a physical impossibility.

If I convinced you of anything, it was to trust in your own smarts and abilities. After all these years of observing you and learning from you so many good principles of how to behave civilly on threads, resist engaging in ire, and how to love in a Christian way, I am honored to get to return a "favor" for once!

287 posted on 11/23/2010 11:10:04 AM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: Finny

THANKS FOR BEING SUCH AN ABIDING ENCOURAGING TREASURE IN MY LIFE.

Am humbled to think that GOD would use any of my flawed anythings to teach you so much as the time of day . . . much less so spiritual meat you were so kind to go on about.

Bless you tons for your encouragement.

And may all your Thanksgiving conversations be as intimate, warm, fruitful and joyous and redemptive as you could dream of.


288 posted on 11/23/2010 11:27:01 AM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Finny
"Absolutely, one can ONLY be 100 % certain it was a vertical plume: the shaded side away from the setting sun is FACING EAST. On a contrail, the shaded side away from the setting sun is facing UP, where no human can see it unless they are in an aircraft ABOVE the contrail looking down."

So based on what you're saying, I shouldn't be able to find a picture of a contrail taken during sunset that has shading. And if I do, it must be a vertical column. Or am I not reading you right. Similarly, clouds pictured during a sunset with a shaded side must be vertical columns. Right? Because with respect to sunlight etc, there really is no difference between a cloud, a contrail or a trail of exhaust.

289 posted on 11/23/2010 11:36:03 AM PST by Rokke (www.therightreasons.net)
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To: Mr. Silverback
I think we won't get a rock solid identification, though...the image isn't good enough.

Maybe Contrail Science should get their story straight. They claim Cessna. And they even use their photoshop tricky to try to prove that. Personally am still investigating the issue, since it is very difficult to see from that image. It was either that E120 or something that was not giving out a transponder code that the Bob Hope Flight Monitor could see. Nothing else shows up. No Cessna close.

290 posted on 11/23/2010 11:43:16 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: Rokke
The side that is most brilliantly lit is the side facing the light source. The side that is the least lit -- the side in darkest shadow -- is the side facing the opposite direction of the light force. We are dealing with cylindrical columns; half of the column is facing the light source, and the other half is facing away from it. You know from which direction the light source originates. THAT knowlege, and that knowledge ALONE, tells you your POV and whether the column is horizontal above that light source, or vertical to that light source.

That's all you need to know to answer your own questions. It is not opinion, it is not interpretation, it is material reality.

291 posted on 11/23/2010 11:51:45 AM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: Rokke
And if I do, it must be a vertical column.

Unless it is taken from another airplane at similar or higher altitude.

Image of contrail must be taken from a camera no higher then the max altitude for that helicopter during filming. Must be during sunset. The other caveat is the plane contrail cannot reach horizon exactly where the sun has set. Almost the entire suns disk must be below horizon. The airplane contrail you are filming must be above 30,000 feet. Those are the same general conditions.

Physics is physics. Geometry is geometry. Cannot be denied. 100 % missile. That is all the proof you need.

292 posted on 11/23/2010 11:52:55 AM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: Finny

You got it buddy. I did not want to do all that typing. Figured people would eventually figure it out in their own time and in their own way. Did a lot of research on light for one of my books. Also studied lighting in computer graphics and in biological mechanisms.


293 posted on 11/23/2010 12:01:59 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape
And they even use their photoshop tricky to try to prove that.

Where? Link please.

BTW, thanks for proving you have no sense of humor.

294 posted on 11/23/2010 12:05:10 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: Finny
So in the picture I posted previously, the right side of the spiraling contrail is most brilliantly let. That also happens to be the side the setting sun is on. The left side is shadowed. It that contrail a vertical column?

And what about this one?

And why then does this photo of an actual missile launch during a sunset not reflect what you say? For that matter, isn't it interesting that an actual missile launch looks nothing like the recent picture taken off the coast of California.


295 posted on 11/23/2010 12:19:00 PM PST by Rokke (www.therightreasons.net)
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To: Finny

I have no idea what to what you are referring.
Pictures next to each other? Leyvas’ video?


296 posted on 11/23/2010 12:24:37 PM PST by kanawa (Obama - "The only people who don't want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.")
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To: Mr. Silverback; justa-hairyape
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Lol. You know something, Silver - you should go eat your gun if you own one. You are obviously scared sh*tless down in your wortless core, or you are one of these creatures that have such a compulsion to sell out your country for whatever enemy is behind the next door that it doesn't even matter which enemy.

This is moving in from the right going toward the launch point, and descending.

Yes, I know I said I'd be off. Got my eyesight back sooner than expeted. Eat your heart out, planeloaders ;P.

297 posted on 11/23/2010 12:36:09 PM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Rokke
The pictures confirm everything I've said. I fail to see what you find so confusing. The bottom pic is very poor, IMO.
298 posted on 11/23/2010 12:41:07 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: kanawa

Sorry about that. See my post 248. I am too inept to figure out how to post photos on a post. *sigh*


299 posted on 11/23/2010 12:52:43 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: kanawa

Yikes! I meant, see my post #263!


300 posted on 11/23/2010 1:06:37 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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