KFMB showed video of the apparent missile to former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Robert Ellsworth, who is also a former Deputy Secretary of Defense, to get his thoughts.Mystery Missile Launch Seen off Calif. Coast
Military Mum on Nature of "Big Missile" Rising Out of Pacific - a Possible Show of U.S. Military Might
(CBS) A mysterious missile launch off the southern California coast was caught by CBS affiliate KCBS's cameras Monday night, and officials are staying tight-lipped over the nature of the projectile."It's spectacular... It takes people's breath away," said Ellsworth, calling the projectile, "a big missile".
CBS station KFMB put in calls to the Navy and Air Force Monday night about the striking launch off the coast of Los Angeles, which was easily visible from the coast, but the military has said nothing about the launch.
Magnificent images were captured by the KCBS news helicopter in L.A. around sunset Monday evening. The location of the missile was about 35 miles out to sea, west of L.A. and north of Catalina Island.
A Navy spokesperson told KFMB it wasn't their missile. He said there was no Navy activity reported in the area Monday evening.
On Friday night, Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, launched a Delta II rocket, carrying an Italian satellite into orbit, but a sergeant at the base told KFMB there had been no launches since then.
Ellsworth urged American to wait for definitive answers to come from the military.
When asked, however, what he thought it might be, the former ambassador said it could possibly have been a missile test timed as a demonstration of American military might as President Obama tours Asia.
"It could be a test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine ... to demonstrate, mainly to Asia, that we can do that," speculated Ellsworth.
Since this stupid article came out, the pentagon has said, there's nothing to to worry about
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Have they made any progress in finding out what it was -- assuming they actually intend to tell us -- and do they know where it ended up?
The "military might" theory sounds like Ellsworth is either going senile or they are really working overtime to deflect inquiry. So does the idiot "nothing to worry about" statement.
Mind you, if it turns out to have been an "unidentified" missle, yeah I'm going to worry, mostly in between stocking up on water, canned goods, candles...
Run around like chickens with their heads cut off banning toner cartridges and then when some unidentified missle is launched at sea it's "Vee Know Nutsing...!"
Accidental firing of a Russian missile? Oh, I shouldn't think that.
Relax, it was just a weather balloon. . .
. . .or the rate of the coming inflation. . .
I've seen weather balloons. They are a lot more impressive than that. I'm going with the "showing-off-our-military-might" explanation for now because it is just stupid enough to be true. (Demonstrating "military might" by shooting off an unannounced, unidentified, random missle best visible from Catalina. Even Iran does it better than that.)
They really need to clear this up ASAP. None of the "explanations" are making any sense, in fact they gonzinity is increasing hourly. Now there's a question if it could be a "conventional aircraft with a long comtrail", as if nobody off the coast of California files a flight plan so hey, we don't know who is leaving vertical "comtrails" out here in the night sky. (The "chemtrails" conspiracy nuts must be going batshit at this point.)
We get so many high-altitude comtrails where I live the sky looks like the strings of Joni Mitchell's guitar. None of them look like that.
False alarm, Amelia?
Somebody better step up and own this soon.
...Iowahawk is categorically denying any involvement in the case of the mystery missle...
Um, I know Northeast Intelligence Network is not always considered the height of reliability, but you folks might want to have a look at http://homelandsecurityus.com/
I remember that missle launch from 2005. The radar that was going around seemed pretty convincing.
It's more than a little disquieting that the most believable stuff on this seems to be from NEIN and like sites.
That was NO aircraft, NO civilian launched rocket. That was a cruise missile or rocket.
Fox had an admiral (Shuttlebeem? Shufflebottom?) trying to spin this like crazy. SHepo Smith called bullshit. "They have satellites that can see me picking my nose on the Long Island Expressway and they can't tell us what this was 19 hours later?"
One way or another the gov't and military know EXACTLY what this was.
And we probably never will.
Let's just hope they know what to do about it.
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