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Pentagon Can't Explain "Missile" off California
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Posted on 11/09/2010 12:22:58 PM PST by tired1

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To: brytlea

I grew up in Cocoa Beach and saw lots of launches. That is a solid rocket. Too fast for a liquid rocket or plane. It is heading downrange to the west at a low trajectory. Does not appear to be heading to orbit. You can see the plume and maybe a staging at the end.


261 posted on 11/09/2010 4:06:19 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Cowabunga)
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To: screaminsunshine

The site does say this
“A temporary overflow site for contrailscience.com”


262 posted on 11/09/2010 4:08:39 PM PST by silentknight
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To: silentknight

I’ll go out tomorrow night at 4:45 and vid the western sky. You’ll see flying at altitude plenty of contrails from airliners from 10 Angels to 32 Angels. None of them will look like today’s vid.


263 posted on 11/09/2010 4:08:42 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: Braak
And wouldn't a test by a foreign power off our coast expose such telemetry?

Good point- but we'd need to know a lot of details in the telemetry collection process that might not be publicly available. Namely, are we always watching with automated systems- or do stations need to be manned, equipment powered up and directed correctly, recording equipment set up, and so forth?

264 posted on 11/09/2010 4:10:10 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Thanks, I will jog into our family room to view/watch Fox in a couple of minutes.


265 posted on 11/09/2010 4:10:49 PM PST by Grampa Dave (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION IS DESTROYING AMERICA-LOOK AT WHAT IT DID TO THE WHITE HOUSE!)
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To: screaminsunshine
You can see the plume and maybe a staging at the end.

If it is a commercial jet contrail, then the plume would mean the plane exploded at the end of the tape.

266 posted on 11/09/2010 4:11:25 PM PST by Never on my watch (Never let a kid play with matches or run with scissors; and never give a gavel to a Democrat!)
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To: OldMissileer
Rather than being from a sub, ( no detection of sound ) could it have been from an installed underground site. Maybe an accidental launch? Enemy pre-positioned ...

Seems a sub would have a difficult time 'getting away' unnoticed after that type of launch.

267 posted on 11/09/2010 4:11:52 PM PST by GOPJ ('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Tea-nami's coming..)
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To: silentknight
That is a missile. It is either China or N. Korea or Iran testing Obozo. My guess would be N Korea. They caught Obama with his pants on the ground. Could be from a surfaced sub or a ship. NK did torpedo a destroyer and Obama took a powder. They are letting him know they can first strike us. Obama will probably claim it is a weather balloon and his MSM puppets will go along. We gotta get that chump out of there before we all get killed.
268 posted on 11/09/2010 4:14:35 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Cowabunga)
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To: tired1

even if it was a missile fired from a ship unfriendly to the USA not to worry .. Obama said we can absorb another terrorist attack.


269 posted on 11/09/2010 4:14:41 PM PST by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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To: OldMissileer

From what I understand, launching from a sub has unique problems ... Some of the original ideas underpinning sub launches came from circus acts - shooting a man out of a cannon. Doesn’t matter how much thrust you have on land - the ground’s not gonna give - but a sub is different...


270 posted on 11/09/2010 4:15:25 PM PST by GOPJ ('Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power." Martin Buber /a Tea-nami's coming..)
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To: screaminsunshine

I have to admit, I’ve never seen a missile launch. Have seen the shuttle streak across the TX sky twice as it was coming in, and seen it launch (from Delray Beach, so far far away) and that’s all. So, I have to rely on you folks who know. But it sure doesn’t look like anything I’ve ever seen an airplane do, and I grew up on military bases.


271 posted on 11/09/2010 4:15:45 PM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Never on my watch

I have seen enough launches to know what it is. It is a solid fuel rocket. 100%.


272 posted on 11/09/2010 4:17:03 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Cowabunga)
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To: screaminsunshine

Chavez?


273 posted on 11/09/2010 4:17:03 PM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: brytlea

Shep on Fox News, just said the Pentagon asked teams to go back and count all of their missiles, just in case.


274 posted on 11/09/2010 4:18:20 PM PST by relee ('Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away)
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To: Enchante
Just how much are the Chicoms invested in their own economy and just how much is it from foreign companies ( i.e. US companies ) ?
Cause the enemy to invest so much in something, then pull the carpet from under them.
How long has it been that the US has been trying to get the Chicoms from pegging their currency from the US dollar ?
Would it be beyond the realm of possibility that the US in a plan let the Chicoms let foreign interest invest so much in their economy, and let the Chicoms invest so much of their own resources that ? at the right time ? pull the carpet from under them ?
Maybe ? it was a demonstration to the Chicoms that no matter how much technology they have stolen from the USA and how modern and powerful their military is, and no matter how much money we have borrowed from them that the USA still has the goods and technology ( technology that they don't know about ) to force them to say uncle ?
The old saying goes,
you owe the bank $ 100,000 , then you got a problem,
but ? if you owe the bank $ 100,000,000,000 then ? the bank has a problem.
Yeah, the Chicoms can stop buying our bonds and crash the US economy, but, so goes the whole world too including the Chinese economy, who is going to buy their goods then ?
In spite of who are president is, maybe the USA is saying to the Chicoms with this missile demonstration " BITE ME " ....
275 posted on 11/09/2010 4:19:24 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: relee

I heard that. Don’t know whether to laugh or to cry.


276 posted on 11/09/2010 4:20:27 PM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: GOPJ

The sub that sank the Korean Destroyer got away and Obama did nothing. He is covering this up. We are at severe risk. Obama is canceling his trip and heading home to manage the coverup.


277 posted on 11/09/2010 4:20:27 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Cowabunga)
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To: screaminsunshine

I agree. Just putting the lie to the jet contrail theories.


278 posted on 11/09/2010 4:21:05 PM PST by Never on my watch (Never let a kid play with matches or run with scissors; and never give a gavel to a Democrat!)
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To: NavyCanDo

I was wavering and started to buy into the contrail theory. No more. That video clearly shows a missile launch.


279 posted on 11/09/2010 4:22:25 PM PST by StolarStorm
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To: upstanding

That is a solid fuel rocket.


280 posted on 11/09/2010 4:22:31 PM PST by screaminsunshine (Cowabunga)
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