Mystery Missile Launch Seen off Calif. Coast

CBS News ^ | 11/9/10 | CBS

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This was no accident people, and it wasn't us. Time for us to start digging for some answers.

I agree because the response was not choreographed between agencies. It took them 14 hours to get the lies coordinated. Time to test the gear and pick up ammo.

[brewcrew]

You say that like it would be a BAD thing....

[GeronL]

If this was an errant test launch from a submarine, and we all know that several people are involved in any launch, then somehow they got the DAY of the test wrong.... thats the big *facepalm* for the Pentagon!

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If it really wasn’t ours, then we are in big trouble.

[ichabod1]

We should have dual threads on this type of thing - one for black humor, and another for real information. Course that would never do. Besides, every once in a while you get a “I have to get in the shower!” moment.

[graceisfree]

I hope he reconsiders as well.

[Rutles4Ever]

IS THIS A WARNING FROM NORTH KOREA ABOUT THE G-20 SUMMIT THAT IS GOING TO BE IN SOUTH KOREA THIS WEEK?

They don't have sub launching capabilities.

[jhpigott]

“Yes, and it came from the Navy’s backyard. Most likely explanation...and the DoD denies this stuff all the time.”

Ok, but why no NOTAMs??? Isn’t it SOP to issue NOTAMs in the event of a test like this??

[MindBender26]

WTF?, over

Had it been a US missile, there would have been very public NOTAMs, Notices To Airmen posted all over the place on the aviation web sites so pilots would be aware of it. Also, FAA would have ensured there were no a/c in area.

The airspace is in W-289, a Warning Area for military activity, but there was apparently to NOTAM to “turn the warning on.”

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Shep is freaking saying how strange it is...

Missle and sub is all’s the caller into Shep said.

[Strategerist]

We should have dual threads on this type of thing - one for black humor, and another for real information

We need a third for conspiratorial nuttery and uninformed speculation.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Belated ping — heavily confirmed by FoxNews radio. Rush suspects China [so do I, or possibly N Korea.]

[gleeaikin]

In case nobody has already posted it, here is the link from AOL news:

http://www.aolnews.com/discuss/mystery-missile-lights-up-los-angeles-skies/19709162#gcpDiscussPageUrlAnchor=&gcpCommentsWidget%5Bp%5D=5&gcpCommentsWidget%5Bs%5D=old

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

I'll have to retract my earlier comment, ABL does test in that area (I guess they dropped the NM test range? Not sure). Their last test was Oct 21, off the coast os So Cal, and was a failure. Same area...so if this was ABL, why hasn't this been noticed before?

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69K3RZ20101021

[jhpigott]

“Fox reporting again on this. Confirmed missle from sub and location classified...”

Did they happen to mention whose flag that sub was flying?

[buccaneer81]

That was an excellent book. “Invasion” by Eric L. Harry.

[ncfool]

China
http://www.defence.pk/forums/india-defence/46837-chinas-anti-ship-missile-not-threat-navy-chief-admiral-nirmal-verma.html

[crusty old prospector]

And a fourth for “I’d hit it” commentary.

[xkaydet65]

Laz, I didn't see your video on cable that night, but I was watching Bernie Shaw on CNN and he threw it to Blitzer, then CNN WH Correspondent. Blitzer, at about 8:15,announced that Clinton was going to speak to the American people at 10PM about the crash. At this moment I had heard nothing of terrorism from CNN or the local NYC TV staions which were already on the scene at both JFK and the waters off Center Moriches. The reaction of my wife and I to Blitzer's announcement was uhh ohhh.

Later I learned from a teacher I worked with that her brother was flying a single engine into Gabreski in S'hampton and had seen the rising trail impact the 747, but later my neighbor, a former NYPD Lt on the anti terrorist TF and then working for the FAA told me he had been in the reconstructed 747 and had seen no evidence of missile strike. So who are we to believe?

[edcoil]

I have not heard yet - where did it land?

[warsaw44]

Would the navy test missiles this close to the coast of the US?