[roses of sharon]

Also, comments from locals.

[roses of sharon]

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/gallery/2010/11/09/mystery-missile-launch-off-california/#photo-1

Screen shots.

[TigersEye]

Expert Thinks "Mystery Missile" an Illusion

The FAA told CBS News that they ran radar replays of a large area west of Los Angeles based on media reports of the location of a possible missile launch, but they did not reveal any fast moving unidentified targets in that area. The FAA also did not receive any reports of any unusual sightings from pilots in the area.

[TigersEye]

Pike said. “But at one place you can see it has changed course — rockets don’t do that.”

Yes they do.

[P8riot]

It’s a missile. The United States is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chinese government. This was just the ink on the paper.

[Netz]

Oh c’mon folks, enough with the mysteries! The military launched a secret payload into orbit, that’s all. They are all denying it because they need to do that. It was not a threat to the US, it was, simply a deniable mission so cool your jets folks...

[maggief]

Ping!

[Nitehawk0325]

“We can confirm that there is no threat to our nation,” the statement said. “We will provide more information as it becomes available.”

What a load of crap this is.

[Nitehawk0325]

“We can confirm that there is no threat to our nation,” the statement said. “We will provide more information as it becomes available.”

What a load of crap this is.

[Arlis]

Ok, as a former pilot in his mid-sixties, I and we have seen hundreds of missile launches and thousands of contrails in our lives. And this was a missle launch.

The media is failing to point out:

1. The speed of the object - far too rapid to be a plane;
2. The magnitude of the contrail/exhaust as it is going up;
3. Most conclusively, the bright glow at near the end of the brilliant flame of the missle blast only produced by a missile - this clearly was no “glint of the sun” reflecting off a fuselage of a plane.

IMHO, this is either an erroneous or intentional launch by a Russian sub; a friendly would not have been so close to our shores without our knowing about it. I do not believe the Chinese have subs with ballistic missiles.

Our Pravda media will not let the truth be known, and our government cannot let it be known that this could have happened without our intelligence knowing what was going on. The implications are too embarassing. The nation just might panic.

Another cover-up. Nothing here - just move on.

[WKUHilltopper]

Didn’t someone fire a missile toward Hawaii and another one near the west coast about one or two years ago? It caught us unaware, apparently.

[PogySailor]

Looks like what I see from the Tampa area when a launch goes up at KSC.

STS-115 launch

[reagan_fanatic]

One expert called it an optical illusion. “It’s an airplane that is heading toward the camera and the contrail is illuminated by the setting sun,” said John Pike, director of the U.S.-based security analyst group globalsecurity.org.

Well, there goes his credibility. That was a missile launch - period.

[Jim Shoe]

I think it’s a government (”Skunk-Works”) “experimental” project. However, it could be the “Aurora” that’s used in intelligence gathering like the SR-71 Black Bird back in the late 60’s and 70’s.

[The Great RJ]

If it is a plane shouldn’t the FAA be able to identify exactly what flight it was from radar data? Maybe I need more tinfoil in my hat, but this does not look like a jet contrail to me.

[Banjoguy]

It’s a common contrail. The object is traveling toward you, not away from you, and since the contrail has a long persistence, it looks like it emanates from the horizon, thus the illusion that it is a missile traveling away from you.

Seems pretty clear to me.

[sergeantdave]

I’ve learned more about missle launches in 15 minutes reading this thread than I knew about this subject in my entire life.

FR is the cat’s meow.

[BunnySlippers]

BUMP

[Young Werther]

TWA 800 was shot down by terrorists. The forensic evidence is viewed from the reconstructed fuselage. Over five hundred eye witness say the contrail of the missle fise from the ocean and head towards TWA 800. A women celebrating her birthday on the beach was photographed on the Lng Island each and the missile contrail is streaking upward above her head.

I wonder why the autopsy reports of the passengers were classified. Was the fregments indicative of a war head!

After the crash records of of other man launched anti aircarft systems were disclosed.

Why the coverup?

[McGruff]

That's no contrail, the engine's on fire.

FIRE. FIRE!