Mysterious missile lights up the sky over the Pacific

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http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13468118

Pacific Ocean (CBS 8)- A mysterious missile launch off the southern California coast was caught on video Monday evening by a KCBS news helicopter.

The spectacular contrail could easily be seen up in Los Angeles, but who launched this missile and why, remain a mystery for now.

The magnificent images were captured from the KCBS chopper around 5pm. The location of the missile was described as west of Los Angeles, north of Catalina Island, and approximately 35 miles out to sea.

A Navy spokesperson tells News 8, this wasn't its missile. He said there was no Navy activity reported in that part of the region.

On Friday, November 5, Vandenberg Air Force Base launched a Delta II rocket, carrying the Thales Alenia Space-Italia COSMO SkyMed satellite, but a sergeant at the base tells News 8, there have been no launches since then.

News 8 showed the video to Robert Ellsworth, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and a former Deputy Secretary of Defense.

He said it didn't appear to be a Tomahawk missile and said it would be safest to wait for definitive answers to come from the military.

Based on pure speculation, however, Ambassador Ellsworth said, with President Obama in Asia, perhaps this could have been a show of our military muscle.

"It could be a test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile from an underwater submarine, to demonstrate mainly to Asia, that we can do that," he said, stressing that it was just a theory.

Video here:
http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13468118

[William]

Mystery

[Richard]

Mystery solved, they claim it was a vapor trail from a aircraft.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101110/pl_...lemilitary

[Anu-021413]

Yeah I just saw the "vapor trail" story. Maybe a black project aircraft that takes off from underwater perhaps? I'm thinking a missile nobody wants to admit was launched or tested.

[Richard]

One thing that they pointed out that made sense is missiles don't make turns. They fly in straight lines. So that rules out that it was a missile.

[Anu-021413]

One thing that they pointed out that made sense is missiles don't make turns. They fly in straight lines. So that rules out that it was a missile.

Not really. A straight line according to trajectory, but the path/exhaust trail curves due to the the earth's rotation, and curvature of the horizon. In other words, the Earth is still spinning, so as your projectile moves upwards, it's not in the same location as the launch point. The launch point is constantly moving away from the path the projectile is launched on.

As well. side winder missiles turn, and the newer, even the more developed Qaam air to air missiles turn, and can be steered via a device on the pilot's helmet. It goes where they are looking. JDAM's, GBU's, MOAB's can also be steered, but they aren't missiles, nor projected.
If the technology is being developed to Tomahawks, and Nuke missiles, the latter could be launched, and directed in a low earth trajectory. Making them even more lethal, as they could fly under radar array's, making them undetectable until impact. Thus rendering interceptor systems ineffective.
That's provided this is the direction of development. Remember the Kursk, testing rocket torpedo's? That test failed and everyone got wet and dead. If this was a test, it was a half failure towards getting to that point.
It sure as hell wasn't a plane.

[Richard]

Well, another thing they pointed out is there are no reports of a missile or fragments anywhere. Nothing showed up on radars either. They linked it to a plane that was flying in that area at the same exact time.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/1...tery/print

[Richard]

This story is interesting.

Re: your Nov. 10 article, “Pentagon: 'mystery missile' was probably airplane”:

I've grown up around aircraft, as my Dad was a bomber pilot in World War II, and worked in Lockheed's Skunk Works department for more than 25 years. This was no contrail from an airliner. Since when do contrails have a clearly noticeable flame trail at the trailing end of the vehicle? Unless it's a fighter, with afterburner capability, there should be no flame noticeable. (And, due to the massive amount of fuel it takes to use an afterburner, they are only used for a few seconds at a time.)

Even fighters don't climb at that rate, at that angle and leave that much tell-tale signs in the sky. (Otherwise, they'd be shot down in a war situation, if they telegraphed their every move with a smoke trail.)

Coincidentally, at 9:50am Wednesday, flying due south, two F-22 Raptors flew over my house in Simi Valley, followed by two more about three minutes later. What's going on?

First the military says "It’s not one of ours" and "We don't know what it was,” to "Case Closed. ...It was just a contrail." The fighters over my suburban house Wednesday, totally out of the norm, were there because? What's goin' on?

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“Missile” Fired Off California Coast On Same Day That Chinese Sub Surprised US Carrier Group

Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, November 11, 2010, 2:17 PM

Coincidence?

The missile fired off of the California coast this week appeared on the same day that a Chinese sub surprised US officials when it appeared suddenly in a US carrier group back in 2007.

Back in 2007 a Chinese submarine surprised American military chiefs when it popped up close to the massive U.S.S. Kitty Hawk.
HotAir reported back in 2007:

    American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk – a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.

    By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is understood to have sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier.

    According to senior Nato officials the incident caused consternation in the U.S. Navy.
    The Americans had no idea China’s fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication, or that it posed such a threat.

Now this week there was a mysterious “missile” in the sky over California?

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/201...+Pundit%29

[Anu-021413]

The more "answers" that are put out after the fact, the more I think the true answer is being hidden.