"All is well, it was just a glowing Frisbee"
Posted on 11/09/2010 2:25:47 PM PST by jimbo123
A mysterious smoke plume that looked like a missile firing off the California coast on Monday may have been an aircraft and not a missile, U.S. military officials said.
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I would think it would be easy enough for the military to test the exhaust chemically and tell what it is.
That’s not just opinion, that’s a fact.
Wouldn’t there be a radar trace of some kind from LAX or associated system?
Thanks. Now that I have seen the video, I’m going with contrail. It looked like an airplane with the sun reflecting off the fuselage, making it look bright.
The only thing that sort of doesn’t make sense now is that is was supposedly launched from 35 miles off the coast of California.
All that said, if it was a contrail, as it got closer and went overhead it would have been obvious, while a missile would have receded as it headed west. But the video stops. That alone is rather odd and raises my suspicions that someone wants us to think it is something when it is nothing. That someone would be the party that made the footage.
just my little homebuilt hobby rocket. sorry bout that guys.
Another option - given the time of day and that it appeared to rise from the sea - how much thought is being given to an illusion generated by a meteor? Back in the 70’s during the day, saw one in Montana - appeared to rise from the Minuteman silo areas heading North generating quite a contrail. It proved later to have been a meteor tracked from Colorado north the the MT/ Canadian border.
If you look closely, you will notice it’s not going WEST .. Its going North/North-West...
I looked at the posted NOTAMS last night and posted them on another thread.
There were NO activations of ANY Warning zones or restricted zones in this area.
That’s a Missile lunch, no doubt in my retired Naval Officers mind
I'm not.
(Oh... you meant submarines... *\;^)
The problem is that there is what looks like flame at the top of the contrail.
However, that could be explained as a reflection of the sun off the fuselage.
Or, of course, swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
That’s not a glow from the thrust of a missile, it’s the setting sun reflected off the aircraft’s skin.
Yup, seems like this would be easy to prove or disprove.
Comments on a thread on this:
Jeff
It was a missile exercise by the US Navy.
KZLA LOS ANGELES (ARTCC)PALMDALE, CA.
A2832/10 NOTAMN A) KZLA B) 1011092000 C) 1011100100
E) THE FOLLOWING RESTRICTIONS ARE REQUIRED DUE TO NAVAL AIR
WARFARE CENTER WEAPONS DIVISION ACTIVATION OF W537.
IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY, ALL NON-PARTICIPATING PILOTS
ARE ADVISED TO AVOID W537. IFR TRAFFIC UNDER ATC JURISDICTION
SHOULD ANTICIPATE CLEARANCE AROUND W537 AND CAE 1176.
CAE 1155 WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR OCEANIC TRANSITION.
CAE 1316 & CAE 1318 WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR OCEANIC TRANSITION.
CAE 1177 WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR OCEANIC TRANSITION.
W537 ACTIVE, CAE 1176 CLOSED.
F) SURFACE G) FL390
November 9, 2010 at 2:19 pm | Reply | Report comment
Pete F
If you draw a straight line from where the video was shot (LA harbor) across Pt. Fermin (the hill in the foreground) to the contrail, you end up exactly intersecting San Nicolas island. That’s a NAVY missile testing facility.
November 9, 2010 at 2:26 pm | Reply | Report comment
Tonight, 1AM Eastern, Coast to Coast AM with Whitley Striber will be discussing it, IIRC.
No news here - Aliens landed in California, and took the quickest route back to the mothership ...
Can’t help it...code name Joshua.
It was a weather balloon with a reflection from swamp gas.
Watch the video again with the idea that you are seeing an aircraft leaving a contrail flying toward you from over the horizon.
I can’t discount the possibility.
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