Pentagon Can't Explain "Missile" off California

http://www.cbsnews.com ^

[tired1]

The Pentagon Tuesday said it was trying to determine if a missile was launched Monday off the coast of Southern California and who might have launched it.

[Gondring]

Missiles are supposed to spin - planes aren't - genius.

Nice strawman. Nobody was talking about the aircraft--they were talking about the contrail...and that spins when exhaust comes out of a turbine, Einstein.

:-)

[Gondring]

I’m guessing that jimbo123 wasn’t given that name on his birth certificate, but that he legally changed to it and is therefore proud to put it on all his accounts. Probably makes it confusing on his mailbox, though...unless he lives at 123 Jimbo St.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

lolol

[D-fendr]

LOL!

Good point.

[1000 silverlings]

lucky it went out to sea

[Dr. Eckleburg]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2624687/posts

Weird, huh?

[1000 silverlings]

check out “club m coastal missile system” and “club k” missiles in a container. “Not ours” would be true, apparently of russian origin

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Where’s Jack Bauer when you need him?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drlreb9-fXQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xupOQSvnas&feature=related

[thecabal]

But at one place you can see it has changed course — rockets don’t do that

Uh, excuse me? He's trying to tell me that a SLBM can't course correct? Seems to me that most rockets have that capability. I have no military experience, but I find his assertion extremely hard to believe. A bit of net research certainly suggests that they can. Maybe someone more knowledgeable that me can clear this up.

[rlferny]

Maybe they realized that Obama has all our war ships in India. For what reason? Who knows. The guy is treasonous.

[Riley]

Read "Blind Man's Bluff" for what was possible decades ago.

THAT was a good read.

There seems to be a lot of assumption that the coasts of the United States are locked up tight with SOSUS sensors and intersecting patrols of ASW aircraft ready to scramble at a moment's notice and so forth.

I'm not sure what the current state of coastal defense for the continental US is, but I wouldn't be shocked if it turned out that there was pretty much nothing at all anymore.

[kronos77]

The Hunt for “Fourth Of July” !?

[Mouton]

Yeah, cannot be the navy, they are all off the coast of asia protecting the asshat.

Has the look of a missile, the gain in altitude at that angle rules out any commercial plane albeit it could be a military plane going vertical.

[FBD]

Thanks for the excellent info. Much appreciated.

[blackpacific]

They nuke the infrastructure they want, then go to flyover country to get the wives. Where the grass is green....

[SeeSac]

YOU KNOW that missiles were fired at the airliner.

How did they delete the tracks from all the radars?

[a fool in paradise]

This administration disregarded the reports that North Korea sank a Japanese ship as well. Until they couldn’t dispute the evidence anymore.

[Gondring]

It’s not gaining altitude; it’s flying level, toward the camera but very high, and far away.

[homegroan]

Bush’s fault....after all, he is kicking off his book tour.

Maybe it was supposed to explode like fireworks and say-

“miss me yet”?

;)

[Gondring]

I would say that there is going to be a large contingent of FReepers eating crow within a few days over this media-driven misidentification... but the sad reality is that the tinhat brigade here is simply going to double-down and wrap themselves in even dumber conspiracy theories.

Agreed.
They've spent too much time out in the sun with the shiny side facing in!