[Brian Kopp DPM]

Here's a pertinent comment from another forum:

If you watch the video you plainly see one of those huge double rotor helicopters near the launch. The military knows full well what it was. They had an aerial observation platfrom right there waiting for it to launch. Why can't the press pull their head out and ask them what the chopper was there for.

[ZX12R]

If you watch the video you plainly see one of those huge double rotor helicopters near the launch.

I don't think so. If the launch was 35 miles offshore, and the video was shot close to shore, that chopper was nowhere near the launch. The chopper had to be close to the video camera.