Infamous Contrail (aka the 'Mystery Missile') Spotted in Satellite Image

Space.com ^ | 11/16/2010 | Space.com

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

When an impressive contrail was spotted off the California coast last week, it sparked widespread reports of a mystery missile launch in the area – a theory the Pentagon squashed after initial investigations. But, the odd contrail fooled more than the public and media, and was even seen from space.

After watching footage of the Nov. 8 contrail, Patrick Minnis, a contrail expert in the Science Directorate at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., assumed it came from a missile, as many others did.

He even said so in response to a phone call from a reporter.

[Tolsti2]

I hope some people are eating crow and feeling awfully foolish for wasting so much time on this.

[donna]

“De plane, de plane!

[GQuagmire]

[Wayne07]

Don’t be fooled, Obama had the Navy launch his birth certificate into space on a trident missile. Almost got away with it. Missile Truther for life!

[pissant]

It was a missile.

[Mr. K]

What worries me more is that big blue arrow - imagine if that had been headed to land!

[The KG9 Kid]

Not even these NASA experts whose job description is to study contrails will persuade the "I SEEN ME A CHI-COM MISSILE" lunatics that it was a passenger jet that was responsible.

Watch. The 'Missileers' will continue to insist that you trust your eyes and believe in their unseen Chinese SSBN submarines.

Quite sad, really.

[Lando Lincoln]

It was a bird.

[Ramius]

It was a pony.

[buccaneer81]

Nope.

TWA 800.

[Hot Tabasco]

I hope some people are eating crow and feeling awfully foolish for wasting so much time on this.

Yea, right.........a conspiracy is a conspiracy despite all the facts.

[buccaneer81]

After TWA 800, all bets are off with “official” explanations.

[jrg]

Philadelphia Experiment

[volunbeer]

What worries me more is that big blue arrow - imagine if that had been headed to land!

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Nice catch! That thing would leave a mark.

:)

[SgtBob]

Ponies don’t fly, silly...it was a pegasus.

[LibLieSlayer]

Absolutely.

LLS

[Brilliant]

It could have been Santa out for a test drive. Probably just a faulty reindeer.

[linear]

I’ll say. The amount of people on here who insisted it was a missile, regardless of the facts, was embarrassing.

[Thane_Banquo]

Don’t worry about it. My sources tell me the Pentagon already has a fully functional anti-big-blue-arrow defense system.