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Can somebody tell me what sort of missile, or even extrapolation of a missile, has a *primary boost phase* that lasts for 10 minutes or more?

To the Comedian:

Sure, I will explain, although I have explained two times before.

As you can see in the short video excerpt, the missile is racing up into the sky, heading north by north-west.

The video of the rocket in flight was taken until it gets smaller and smaller and then disappears -— this part is under UNDER 2 minutes long -— “That thing was really going fast” said the LAX webcam operators.

The remaining 8 minutes of film are of the smoke plume remaining, lingering, in the sky:

The cameraman took 8 minutes of the missile exhaust because what he had just finished seeing was so unique and dramatic and strange, and the plume was so strange — “Never seen anything like it before” —that he continued taking film even after the missile had disappeared.

The blog idea of “a 10 minute video of a missile launch” is a “garble” of what really happened and what was said by the cameraman. No one would be so foolish as to say that they filmed a missile rising in the sky for 10 minutes -— only that the whole tape, including a lot of footage of the bizarre and odd and strange smoke plume, was that long.

You can see for yourself that the “object” is moving fast.

You can see for yourself the red fire coming out of the base of the object.

You can see for yourself that the object, like the many other missile launches that I have seen and that many other FReepers have seen, that the object rises up and arcs out further over the ocean and gets smaller and finally disappears from sight.

Seriously everyone, how many huge experts do you need to hear from?

It is good to know that bloggers sitting at home looking at a few seconds of a partial video clip can come up with much better opinions than the experts that I have posted.

Insulting Gen McInerney seems a very foolish thing to do: have you seen his Wiki entry listing his very long and illustrious career and his service to our country?

He is 100% sure he saw a SLBM launch, as am I (for what little that is worth).

Why would anyone on this Forum insult this man? I cannot understand people who would do this. Certainly he knows better than they ...

What experience do these weird “contrail” people have to offer??? What expertise? How many hours in fighter jets or submarines or actually there, working at missile launches??? None, I bet.

It is not a thin vapor condensation trail in the sky above our heads.

It is thick, heavy rocket corkscrew exhaust plume (as Jane’s missile expert pointed out to the Times of London the first day), and it is a missile.

Thousands of planes pass near and over LAX every day. No one has ever seen anything like this before.

And that is because nothing like it has ever happened before.

This SLBM launch should be the #1 topic across America, as I believe we have just been shown China’s new power -— Thanks, Bill Clinton !!!