Mystery After Missile Fired Off California

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Mystery After Missile Fired Off California

Anyone else see this ??

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Mysterious-Missile-Fired-Off-California-And-Caught-On-Camera/Article/201011215798280?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_4&lid=ARTICLE_15798280_Mysterious_Missile_Fired_Off_California_And_Caught_On_Camera

cocoshovel

It has to be the Navy/Air force. Even if they do deny it. Can there really be any one else responsible. Its a little bit scary too. For all we know the US could of come extremely close to war, you never know what goes on behind the scenes. North Korea may of launched a nuke and US retaliated and shot it down over the ocean..
Haha I like to imagine crazy things. but you just don't know :rolleyes::eek:

It was 35 miles out to sea of the coast of LA right? I wonder if there was any air traffic in the area at the time. Pretty dangerous stuff.

dontclickonthis

There saying also it could be a commercial rocket maybe, but it would take alot of $$$ to get that up.

Delancey

Pentagon are suggesting it was a jet contrail , something to do with twilight conditions making it look much bigger and also make it appear that it was vertical , I dunno - looked like a missile to me

SNAKEDOC

i don't know how people think thats an optical illusion. its reminds me of the shuttle from a distance away. probably a sub test firing a missile. i'm curious though they always issue a press release about it for all the enthusiasts. maybe there was a drone that got of course that had to be blown up or something, or another nations sub maybe, just thinking out loud. sure maybe it was a nuke that was intercepted.:D:D

seamus

It could very easily be a contrail coming towards the camera as opposed to going upwards. I've seen the same optical effect on contrails here.

But it's not a commercial airliner - a USAF jet maybe? Would the obvious flame/burning be indicative of an afterburner? This may explain why the first images don't seem to show any propulsion, but the later ones do?

If you're going to suppose that the US military are hiding something, you have to ask why. This was something over U.S. airspace. Doesn't appear to be anything special - it may be quite a small object, but it stands out obviously from the orange sky. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't admit to a rocket test firing, or make up a story about a bog-standard test firing if this was something top secret.

steve-o

Most definitely a plane flying generally towards the observer leaving a wind-blown contrail behind it. The entire contrail is at high altitude: if it was a climbing missile, the lower parts of the contrail would be in shadow. Any perceived "flame" is the reflection of the setting sun on the plane. No story here, other than global media sensationalism of a non-story.

cyrusdvirus

SNAKEDOC wrote: »

i don't know how people think thats an optical illusion. its reminds me of the shuttle from a distance away. probably a sub test firing a missile. i'm curious though they always issue a press release about it for all the enthusiasts. maybe there was a drone that got of course that had to be blown up or something, or another nations sub maybe, just thinking out loud. sure maybe it was a nuke that was intercepted.:D:D

Not so much for the enthusiasts but more for the general safety of the travelling public. Imagine an A380 (non RR Trent powered ) flying along and all of a sudden a test missile goes and slams into it cos they never closed off the airspace??

Tenger

The mysterious "missile" trail viewed and videoed off the California coast Monday has an explanation. The missile was most likely the contrail from AWE808, a 752, from HNL to PHX. Conspiracy theorists can calm down now:

Scroll down in the article for the Nov-9 "incident."

http://contrailscience.com/
or
http://uncinus.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/4/


AWE808 on Nov-9:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A...8/history/20101108/1955Z/PHNL/KPHX

Delancey

I'm no conspiracy theorist and I guess I accept the official explanation , it goes to show how strange things can look - I'm sure we all here remember TWA 800 that blew up off Long Island , numerous witnesses on the ground said they saw a missile streaking upwards and hitting it.
No evidence was found in the wreckage and ultimately the 'streak ' was thought to be burning fuel from the aircraft.

SNAKEDOC

gatecrash wrote: »

Not so much for the enthusiasts but more for the general safety of the travelling public. Imagine an A380 (non RR Trent powered ) flying along and all of a sudden a test missile goes and slams into it cos they never closed off the airspace??

i meant in general when any type of test is carried out such as a missile launch to test a new rocket motor or the latest test from drydan then there is a press release for the enthusiasts of aviation. not the travelling public. i see your point though, and obviously if it was a test then the airspace would have been restricted so it been an airliner is obviously true,