This is a great point. The military has a long and obvious history of deceiving the public about its various nefarious missions. The likeliest explanation here is a de-population chemtrail (cleverly disguised as a “missile launch” to throw off the Public) from a Government Program, possibly in an effort to reduce future healthcare costs in over-populated areas. Of course, like former Ambassador Ellsworth said on the TV news show, perhaps the military decided to do a submarine ballistic missile launch just to remind the Asians that we can. The key is that the military always denies to the US Public even if the purpose of the mission is to have the Enemy know our capability. And I think everyone is being way too hasty ruling out aliens…if it is an alien launch, you can bet the military is going to cover that up, too.
The key to getting to the Truth is to look for the most likely explanation, which is almost always Conspiracy of some kind, rather than utterly ordinary events.
Seriously, the news organizations have aircraft. Fly 35 miles out and look at the damned thing, or, if you can’t be bothered, shut up about “wondering what it could be.”
I assume it was not an unknown ballistic missile launch off our coast because nobody went…well…ballistic. In country where the subway loudspeakers constantly warn us to watch for suspicious packages and whole blocks are closed off to investigate somebody’s lunch bag, I would expect an ICBM launch to generate rather more reaction.
I’m now envisioning a public-service announcement for Californians:
“See it, say it. If you notice anything out of the ordinary off our coast, simply ask the person standing next to you, ‘Excuse me, is that your Intercontinental Ballistic Missile contrail?’”
I find it fascinating that the government is still keeping up the “we have no idea” claim two days later. Even the FAA apparently says “nothing showed up on our radar”. Just watched a summary on MSNBC…who failed to mention the missile launch warning ajb867 posted.
Obviously I think it was meant to be seen. If the government wanted to keep a submarine missile launch quiet, all they would have had to do was launch it a few hundred miles further off LA.
A local CBS station in LA asked an ex ambassador/Defense Department official and he said it was probably meant to send a “message” of some sort to our Asian friends who Obama is visiting this week. Seems likely, but the secrecy is a little unusual.
However, if it was Russian or Chinese…hmm…that’d be a hell of a message for them to send us. Launching a missile from inside our own weapons testing range after we sent out notice of a potential test. That seems a little on the provocative side…
I can’t believe no one’s stating the obvious here - that it was in fact a missile, but the government’s playing dumb because they don’t want to fess up to whatever secret activities they were conducting out there. It certainly wouldn’t be the first the military has told a boldfaced lie in an effort to cover something up.
Do you really think barry hussein obama would be so transparent as to reveal information about a foreign/terrorist missile being fired off of the American coastline?
Barry will not even reveal his old high school records.
And yet the ‘missile’ trail continues after that. I think what you are seeing there is someone editing the clip to fast forward, possibly a flash of sun or light off whatever the object is, and then a cut to a talking head. I’ve seen the whole thing (it was on Good Morning America this morning with Dr. Michio Kaku explaining the contrail theory) and you don’t see an explosion followed by the end of the ‘missiles’ vapor trail (and all the falling debris and such you’d see if someone blew up a missile).
Since I’ve seen zero physical evidence of any debris found (or any report of the military or UFO Lizard Overlord craft cordoning off the area while they scoop up all the evidence), I’d say the theory that it was a missile that was detonated has nothing to back it up. So…I’m staying with the contrail theory at this point until some substantial evidence to the contrary comes out. A YouTube video does not constitute substantial evidence.
If you detonate a missile in the air (which was what Sitnam was implying by linking to the YouTube video and directing us all to look at the video) then you get a flash and debris…just like if an air craft blows up. Right?
Did the missile warp out of the universe afterward? It had to go somewhere, if it was indeed a missile. Again…right?
Ah, the perpetual bane of the conspiracy theorist: logic. Our government can build a missile that tracks fighter jets with the radar cross-section of a bird, but apparently it can’t build one that can track a 200-foot airliner.