Yep, I suspect that's exactly what it is.........Cheers for the old professor to get his last 15 minutes of fame "surmising" it might be a submarine missile launch as a show of force............
It could be an amateur rocket launch. Not the Estes variety, the big 10 ft. variety of a serious hobbyist.
that’s what I’m wondering about — it just doesn’t make sense for any kind of “official” test, and while it’s sizable it’s not any real ballistic intercontinental missile
That is not the exhaust plume from any hobby rocket.
If you look at the video at the beginning the plume starts at water level and rises vertically for several hundred feet before pitch over.
That is a sub launched ballistic missile and it looks as if its' trajectory was taking it toward Kwajalein Atoll where we target our western test launches.
If it was not a US sub then there was a MASSIVE breakdown in our sensor and warning systems to allow an enemy/unknown sub to get only 35 miles to our shore.
Yep, I suspect that's exactly what it is.........Cheers for the old professor to get his last 15 minutes of fame "surmising" it might be a submarine missile launch as a show of force............
Doubt it. First of all, the launch was at sea. An serious amateur would know that 35 miles is not far enough at sea to avoid problems with the FAA which could shut them down from their beloved hobby forever and the FAA said that no one applied for a license to launch.
Also, an amateur rocket launch of that magnitude would require the talents of dozens of people and when you have that many people, somebody is going to talk.