Nmysys wrote: Strange how no one will tell us. Instead some idiot responded that it might have been a jet taking off. Must have been a Progressive that thinks we actually listen to them, smarter than us that they think they are.
Pentagon says mysterious launch over California, left, is unexplained — but the video footage looks very similar to much-less mysterious images of ordinary jet takeoffs.
That mystery “missile” launched
last night off of the coast of Los Angeles? It probably wasn’t a missile at all, several leading defense analysts say.
The various arms of the U.S. military scrambled this morning to explain the creepy footage, snapped by a CBS news helicopter, of what appeared to be a missile flying into the air, not far from Los Angeles. U.S. Strategic Command, Northern Command, Air Force Space Command, Air Force Global Strike Command, the Navy and the Missile Defense Agency were all left struggling to give an answer for what appeared to be a rogue ICBM. But to
GlobalSecurity.org
director John Pike, there’s an easy explanation: “It is obviously an airplane.”
“The aircraft is flying towards the observer; the air over the Pacific is clear, so the contrail is visible all the way to the horizon. This creates the optical illusion of a rocket flying up, rather than the actual situation of an airplane flying horizontally,” Pike tells Danger Room. “The object generating the contrail is moving too slowly to be a rocket; the contrail is not expanding as the ‘rocket’ gains ‘altitude’ — which would be the case as the exhaust plume expanding into less dense high altitude air.”
Neptune:
Don't worry, I read your post. I used to live in California, stationed at Camp Pendleton. I used to see missels being launched all the time, and there was never any hoopla about it.
I have reviewed the video several times. I see a flare coming out a single engine, as if it was missile. Only Fighter Jets and Missiles have engine flares (not sure if that's the correct terminology) coming out the back of the engines.
