While the contrail appeared similar to those left in the earlier launches, McDowell and other scientists noted that the contrail appeared to be moving too slowly to be the result of any sort of missile launch. The more likely explanation, they said, was that it was simply a standard aircraft contrail that was captured on video from an unusual airborne angle.

Pentagon spokesman on mystery missile: 'We've come up empty with any explanation,' but 'are not alarmed about this until we know more'

Pentagon calls mystery missile 'unexplained,' cannot rule out threat

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Last Updated: 1:30 PM, November 9, 2010

The Pentagon said Tuesday that a missile launch off the southern coast of California remained “unexplained” and that its mysterious origins meant that it was not possible to rule out any threat to the homeland, Fox News Channel reported.

Update on mystery plume over Calif.: Defense official tells NBC most likely cause was an airplane, not a missile

What does it say about the world we live in when they can bury a story as big as this and NO ONE questions it

Can you say COMMUNIST USA

Well, let’s hope the ‘default target’ programming for the danged thing was somewhere in the middle of the Pacific ocean..... Orbital launch is low probability since there are so many other more secure platforms around the world.

I’m not much concerned here. Here’s why:

1. That missile was either “known source” or “unknown source”

If from unknown source, right now we’d all be on high alert with North America on lockdown, F-16’s screaming overhead and Obama and entourage barrelling home on Air Force One. Nothing of the sort is happening. Instead, they’re saying ‘national security is not at stake.’

That leaves: known source. Us, or them. (Not ET, since rocket technology is much too crude, and ET actions are more subtle.)

2. Missile was “ours”. The classic f*ckup: someone in the Navy underwater pushed the wrong button. Can’t admit that, can we? No, must scramble for plausible lie... let’s see: It was a typo on the ‘normal launch’ schedule...? Yeah. Blame the press office. Say: they thought it was supposed to be launched ‘next week’ and the clowns didn’t issue the press advance in time... good...good. Someone at the press office can walk the plank for this and we’re off the hook....good. Do it. Or something like that.

3. Missile was “theirs”. But whose? Someone who could disable all U.S. underwater and satellite monitoring and technology and sneak the thing in...?

• China? Possibly but pretty pointless from the Chinese point of view, since they have no need right now to intimidate the U.S further – which is already heavily over a barrel via their own Treasury bonds. The Chinese, like the ET’s, are far more subtle. They’re holding the high cards now – and can afford to be exceedingly patient.

• Russia? Hmmm. But why? It would be received as an obvious act of war.


• Israel? A wild card, to be sure, but not out of the question. They want war with Iran, and they want it now. Are they playing a hostage game with American interests, using one of the weapons given to them by the Americans in the first place? Could happen.


• A rogue group of “patriots”? Why would they waste an expensive stolen missile showing off and give away their position?

All in all, the simplest answer is probably the most likely. I vote for door number two, Monty. The basic screw-up.

Cheers,

Selene

Not aware of any conventional aircraft whose contrail is THAT spiral.

Missile fired on the CA shores was reportedly a Chinese submarine missile. The Obama Regime is LYING to the American People again

Doug Richardson, the editor of Jane’s Missiles and Rockets, examined the video for the Times of London and said he was left with little doubt.

"It’s a solid propellant missile," he told the Times. "You can tell from the efflux [smoke]."

Richardson said it could have been a ballistic missile launched from a submarine or an interceptor, the defensive anti-missile weapon used by Navy surface ships.

finally, the Cruise Ship engine fire AND the CA missile mystery solved in one neat article http://bit.ly/aUqcUL

“If the United States can increase the volume of dollars and it can transmit inflation to other countries to lessen the pressure of debt, then it will bring about a catastrophic influence on the world.”

Several members have photographed and reported a rapidly-rising object that appears to have originated from Luke Air Force Base west of Phoenix, AZ at 5:30 PM local (Pacific) time. The object portrayed characteristics of a missile launch with slightly arcing trajectory, lingering plume, and rapid ascent. However, there are reports that some people have observed a winged aircraft with blinking lights once the object passed high over Scottsdale.