In any case, if this were a planned event, military officials would have known weeks in advance.
“There is a safety routine that the government goes through,” Ellison said. “Everything needs to be cleared away. They’re not going to take any risks.”
Looks like Clinton just found where he lost those launch codes.
What is fascinating is that it is now being claimed that it is a contrail. And the evidence is pretty compelling that it is.
What this means to me is that the two look a lot alike and even experts can be fooled. I’m assuming it was a missile launch, though, since “they” said it was.
Hope it landed in Tehran
We have no launch faclities 35 miles west of LA.... just a lot of deep water.
not supposed to be mistakes...I remember seeing something simular in the early 80’s but it crossed several states. they never reported what that was either.
Assuming it was a missile, if you don't know who launched it, how in Hades can you know what the intent was?!
See silentknight’s post #213 here. I’m thinking it’s case closed.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2624382/posts?page=213#213
I just saw it on the local TV station. Sure looks like a large missile to me.
I’ve never been on a sub, or anything else that fires a missile, but I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that there’s no way in hell something that big can be launched by mistake.
I’m SURE there is a process that must be deliberately followed. This thing didn’t go off by someone hitting a ‘wrong button’ or dropping something on a keyboard. No way....
OOPS!
Obama’s fault.
Now that I think about it, “errant” could be very different from “accidental”. But it still is very strange.
One thing we will know is that we won’t get the truth.
Satellite will have it... right down to where it landed. Retrieval might take some time but anything is possible.
Many questions beg answers, foremost being if it aint ours how did they get in so close for a launch? Just who is playing show and tell?
Doesn’t Vandenberg AFB launch missiles? But then again, what another poster wrote ... “what, did somebody trip over a wire or something?” ... I remember reading that countdown clocks start weeks before a launch and shortly before launch it’s all automatic ... wonder if somebody plugged their cellphone in to charge it and .... whooomph ....
Do people realize that at any time off the coast of California there's hundreds of commercial ships and private watercraft in the vicinity where this 'missile' launch allegedly occurred? That the skies of SoCal are filled with commercial and private aircraft taking off and landing at any given moment? That there's always countless human beings watching the coast from any number of vantage points, most of whom have quality digital cell phone cameras capable of recording video?
Yet nobody reported a thing except this wacky news copter crew? No fishing vessels off Long Beach fishing for yellowtail tuna saw an ICBM missile come roaring out of the water on a column of fire like a Polaris ICBM launch? Nobody but this TV news chopper recorded this amazing event? No commercial airliners taking off from LAX, John Wayne, Ontario, or Long Beach airports saw an obvious missile roar into space past their position? No USMC, Navy, or Coast Guard pilots flying around saw a thing? No Coast Guard cutters reported seeing a sub-launched missile bloom and the tell-tale column of smoke rising up from the ocean?
Thousands of people didn't capture astonishing cell phone came video from all points of the compass of this "missile" soaring into space and breathlessly post it on YouTube and alert their local media?
No reports at all?
It was a flipping contrail from a commercial jet, folks. Just some peculiar anomaly of general aviation captured by happenstance photography.
They were giving Obama the ALL CLEAR to return to the US.
Honey I launched the missles.