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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

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.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aa612; aa621; californiamissile; contrail; mysterymissile; notbreakingnews; sourcetitlenoturl
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1 posted on 11/09/2010 12:23:03 PM PST by tired1
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Check it out on YouTube, then read the comments...funny and scary at the same time.


2 posted on 11/09/2010 12:24:05 PM PST by panthermom
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To: tired1

Maybe it was Iran trying to scare the POTUS.


3 posted on 11/09/2010 12:24:09 PM PST by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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To: tired1

China, thanks to qe2. Lots of money lost.


4 posted on 11/09/2010 12:24:45 PM PST by mirkwood
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To: tired1

The next question is “Where did it land and can it be recovered?”


5 posted on 11/09/2010 12:24:48 PM PST by RC2
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To: tired1

Swamp gas!


6 posted on 11/09/2010 12:26:24 PM PST by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: tired1

Sonar picked up Russians singing.


7 posted on 11/09/2010 12:27:20 PM PST by pallis
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To: tired1

The real word is, “won’t.”


8 posted on 11/09/2010 12:27:32 PM PST by r9etb
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Imagine this exact same scenario in the early 60’s. I think the response would have been, I dunno, different.

If our government did not do this, and Dr. No did not do this, and it’s not Iron Man, then this is a VERY big deal.


9 posted on 11/09/2010 12:27:35 PM PST by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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No the next question is where is the next one going to land down town LA the LA -Long beach harbor Hoover damn ?


10 posted on 11/09/2010 12:27:34 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
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To: tired1
they know what this was, they just are not saying. Obama is probably trying to get the attention off of him and his screw up.
11 posted on 11/09/2010 12:27:47 PM PST by martinidon (It's The Spending Stupid)
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To: RC2

I recall some kid landing a Cessna in downtown Moscow (USSR), many General’s ‘heads rolled’.


12 posted on 11/09/2010 12:28:17 PM PST by tired1 (Federalize the Fed)
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If the US were nuked, does anyone believe that Obama would retaliate with nukes?

I don’t, and neither does Russia or China or Iran or NoKo.


13 posted on 11/09/2010 12:28:26 PM PST by Retired Greyhound
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China sending us a message after Obummer’s visit to India?

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

China’s anti-ship missile not a threat: Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma

Dismissing China’s anti-ship missile programme as a threat to Indian warships, Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma today said it would be a difficult task to even spot the vessels in the vast expanse of high seas.

“Targeting ships at high seas is not an easy task or as simple as land warfare,” Admiral Verma told reporters here on the sidelines of a seminar on aircraft carriers organised by the National Maritime Foundation here.

“There are hundreds and thousands of ships in the sea at any given time. It is extremely important to spot the ship before targeting it. There are limitations in terms of maritime reconnaissance and long-range searches,” Verma said when asked about the threat posed by Chinese Anti-ship Ballistic Missile Programme.

He said it was “a complex problem” to use a conventional missile against a moving target at high seas.

Earlier, addressing the seminar, the Navy Chief said aircraft carriers were expensive and there were questions on their affordability and survivability due to their large size while at sea.

“Some even talk about carrying out land-based missile attacks against an aircraft carrier. We must weigh this against the difficulties of targeting a mobile target out at sea,” he said, noting that carriers can move 600 nautical miles a day, which translates into one million square nautical miles of ocean area which an adversary has to search.

China’s anti-ship missile not a threat: Navy Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma - India - The Times of India


14 posted on 11/09/2010 12:28:29 PM PST by ncfool (The new USSA - United Socialst States of AmeriKa. Welcome to Obummers world or Obamaville USSA.)
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Maybe the Russians launched it to send a message that we are, in fact, defenseless!


15 posted on 11/09/2010 12:28:32 PM PST by J Edgar
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To: tired1

Its a weather balloon, ignited by swamp gas


16 posted on 11/09/2010 12:28:38 PM PST by PGR88
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Let's pin this tail directly on the donkey at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Pentagon The White Crib Can't Explain "Missile" off California
17 posted on 11/09/2010 12:28:59 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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When TWA 800 went down (off Long Island) there were close to 100 eyewitnesses who saw a missile rise up from the sea and strike the plane, causing it to explain.

A careful government investigation determined that this did not happen, and that a spark in the center fuel tank was the actual cause of the explosion.

Because we don't have terrorists launching missiles right off our coasts. That doesn't happen. Ever. I mean it.

18 posted on 11/09/2010 12:29:29 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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“The system worked!” < /Napoleon the XIV >


19 posted on 11/09/2010 12:30:34 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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Obviously launched by the worlds great emperialists... Israel. To discredit moose limbs.

/sarc

20 posted on 11/09/2010 12:31:00 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.8)
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