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Mystery contrail / missile trail
Was this a mistake or just a figment of someone's imagination? This is going to take some splannin.
Mystery of the California contrail | World news | guardian.co.uk |
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Interesting.
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11-09-2010, 10:17 AM
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That would be creepy/worrying to see.
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Navy launch? Model Rocket? For profit Rocket co.?
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11-09-2010, 11:03 AM
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Sorry can't stream the video right now so I dunno if they talk about this or not, but...
The island out there west of Catalina is San Nicholas, home of the NAS which (among other things) houses a part of the Navy's Space Warfare Division (or used to). $5 says it had something to do with that.
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11-09-2010, 11:06 AM
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Weather balloon.
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11-09-2010, 11:26 AM
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11-09-2010, 11:26 AM
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It was just a streetlamp
 Or swamp gas.
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11-09-2010, 11:29 AM
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What is odd is the missile looks to be very low at the start of the video (going off the cloud deck, etc).
It really looks like a Navy surface to air missile like Aegis boats launch. I have seen at least ten go off the rail (showing my age now). I would be very concerned if it was an excercise and the news helo was so close. I wish he would have panned left and down!
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11-09-2010, 11:32 AM
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Seahawk,
Cruise missle?
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11-09-2010, 11:38 AM
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I'm just glad it didn't acquire any airliners!
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11-09-2010, 11:46 AM
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This is probably going to be like the Air Force 1 fly by in NYC, someone overlooked the fact that the public should have received notification. Simple as that. Probably not the truth but a simple answer.
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What about the possibility it's from a Chinese sub? Kind of a brag/message to the U.S. "look what we can do".
Remember a while back they did something along those lines. They fired a missile at one of their satellites in orbit and created one hell of a mess up there. Again as a brag/message "look what we can do". |
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11-09-2010, 12:20 PM
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I've seen many a missile contrail here, but the usual suspects (typically Vandenburg) own up to it. Odd that DoD agencies are shrugging their shoulders. Maybe one the the three letter agencies is not sharing.
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11-09-2010, 01:04 PM
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Wow, that Ellsworth is some smart cookie. He thinks it could be a missle from a "underwater submarine" to show some power. Ahhhhh, Mr. Ellsworth, the Navy did this same thing over 30 years ago and can do the same thing today over 200 times in 24 hours. I'm glad he is not in charge of any military thing today or he might say a C-130 can lift 10 tons of gear. Brilliant.
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latest i heard is that we know it wasn't a foreign government, it wasn't ours and it is too large to be a private missile, we think it was an airplane
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