Mystery missile fired off CA coast

But to GlobalSecurity.org director John Pike, there’s an easy explanation: “It is obviously an airplane.”

“The aircraft is flying towards the observer; the air over the Pacific is clear, so the contrail is visible all the way to the horizon. This creates the optical illusion of a rocket flying up, rather than the actual situation of an airplane flying horizontally,” Pike tells Danger Room. “The object generating the contrail is moving too slowly to be a rocket; the contrail is not expanding as the ‘rocket’ gains ‘altitude’ — which would be the case as the exhaust plume expanding into less dense high altitude air.”

MIT astronomer Jonathan McDowell tells New Scientist pretty much the same thing. Although he does note that the Navy owns a missile target and launch facility at nearby San Nicolas Island.
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L.A.’s Mystery ‘Missile’ Is Probably a Jet | Danger Room | Wired.com

Yep.
 
Although he does note that the Navy owns a missile target and launch facility at nearby San Nicolas Island.
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yep
 
Why do I find it hard to believe that it was a plane? Couldn't they just had called the FAA on the day of the event?

Hmm.
 
Banjo said:
Why do I find it hard to believe that it was a plane? Couldn't they just had called the FAA on the day of the event?

Hmm.
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I have a perfect explanation. It's a heavily-modified crop-duster plane. That explains a thick & long plume of contrail and slow movement.

success.
 
Oh the Pentagon says it was a plane...... Now I believe it :roll:
 
Jiro said:
I have a perfect explanation. It's a heavily-modified crop-duster plane. That explains a thick & long plume of contrail and slow movement.

success.
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You could work for the public relations at the Pentagon. :lol:
 
Banjo said:
You could work for the public relations at the Pentagon. :lol:
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Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf was my former student. Not a very bright one though...

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I just re-watched the video. It doesn't look like vapour left by a plane.
 
Banjo said:
You could work for the public relations at the Pentagon. :lol:
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Seriously, if they said it was the drug cartel's meth lab successfully destroyed, how many people would actually believe it?
 
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