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Title: Experts Think California ‘Mystery Missile’ Was Merely A Plane
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upsho ... think-that-california-mystery-
Published: Nov 10, 2010
Author: Brett Michael Dykes
Post Date: 2010-11-10 17:29:31 by Murron
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Views: 5859
Comments: 7
Experts Think California ‘Mystery Missile’ Was Merely A Plane Brett Michael Dykes Surely by now you've heard about the "mystery missile" that darted across the Southern California sky. Military officials and other federal authorities don't appear to have a clue as to what the flying object could have been. But some outside experts have a simple explanation for the uproar: What appeared to be a projectile spreading across the sky in the video was simply a contrail, the plume of smoke that airplanes typically leave in their wake. (UPDATE: The Pentagon is now also saying that it was a plane.) "This thing is so obviously an airplane contrail, and yet apparently all the king's horses and all the king's men can't find someone to stand up and say it," John Pike, a defense and aerospace expert, told the Washington Post's John Pomfret. Pike noted that the projectile was moving much slower than a missile would, adding that "there's a reason that they're called rockets." Here's how Pomfret laid out Pike's case for the contrail theory: It looked like a missile launch, he said, because of an optical illusion that made the contrail appear as though it started on the ground and zoomed straight up. In reality, he said, the contrail began on the horizon and ran parallel to the ground. "It was an unusually clear day," he said. So what looked like a missile launch 35 miles off the coast of Los Angeles was actually the contrail of a jet that stretched 300 miles into the distance, he said. "At the end of the day, you really have to go with the simplest explanation," he added. Pike is not alone in that assessment. Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell told New Scientist that because a helicopter in flight recorded the video of the incident, it employed a visual angle that distorted the arc of the contrail. That effect was compounded, McDowell maintained, by the distinctive lighting of the sky at twilight--and the net result was a bit of an optical illusion. "What isn't clear to me is whether anyone but this helicopter saw it," McDowell said. "If it's coming over the horizon, straight at you, then it rises quickly above the horizon. You can't tell because it's so far away that it's getting closer to you -- you'd think it was just going vertically up." In a blog post titled "It Ain't No Thing," arms control guru Jeffrey Lewis agreed: "The short explanation is that we don't see a lot of jet contrails head-on, especially from the vantage point of a helicopter. So, it looks like a missile to everyone else, including former Deputy Secretaries of Defense. But it probably isn't." Nor, it seems, is this the first time that a jet contrail has triggered anxious speculation about a mystery in the heavens. There is, indeed, a website called Contrail Science devoted to explaining the visual quirks of contrails -- while debunking some of the wilder theories about what's going on up there. Below is physicist Michio Kaku on the airplane theory (courtesy of ABC News): It appears, in short, as though the "mystery missile" may amount to little more than a "Balloon Boy"-style cable non-story.
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#1. To: Murron (#0)
Below is physicist Michio Kaku on the airplane theory (courtesy of ABC News): It appears, in short, as though the "mystery missile" may amount to little more than a "Balloon Boy"-style cable non-story. That won't stop the incessant drone from the 9/11 truther crowd and conspiracy kooks.
Nope....&;-)
"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee
Do you actually believe their explanation? Did you see the video they refer to? Last question: have you seen an SLBM in flight, before?
Getting tired of the bozoed calcon following me around on the 'net, wanting to discuss "tossing salad." Sorry, you sick rump-ranger. NOT interested.
Conspiracy kooks won't. Hell, facts and scientific evidence never affect you.
It looks like a missile to me, and I have seen a sea launched missile in my lifetime. The explanations stink to high heaven.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
So why are U an Expert? How come it took you 36 Hours to come up with that? How come your talking heads start their explanation with...wait for it... 'I'm not a Conspiracy Theorist?' and 'This explains it...sort of." Update: Thomas G. McInerney, Retired United States Air Force Lieutenant General: “That is a missile, it’s launched from a submarine… I am absolutely certain that that is not an aircraft.” The venue was Fox News, but I happen to agree with Thomas McInerney’s assessment. I’ve transcribed the salient points of what he said. My ears started to bleed from listening to those other idiots. Here’s the bulk of what what Thomas McInerney said, along with the video below: This is not an airplane because of the plume and the way you see that plume. Airplanes do not con at sea level or 5,000 feet like that. I spent 35 years flying fighters and I never saw an airplane con like that. That is a missile, it’s launched from a submarine and you can see it goes through a correction course and then it gives a very smooth trajectory, meaning that the guidance system is now kicked in. It’s going at about a 45 degrees away from you. That’s why you’re not seeing a lot of vertical velocity… I am absolutely certain that that is not an aircraft…" We're into the CoverUp now. BWAHAHAHAHAHA China to US. China to US. Can you hear us now? 8D
Ever since American citizens have taken back the house, I see many chem trails daily. The water tastes funny now too.
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"This thing is so obviously an airplane contrail, and yet apparently all the king's horses and all the king's men can't find someone to stand up and say it," John Pike, a defense and aerospace expert, told the Washington Post's John Pomfret. Pike noted that the projectile was moving much slower than a missile would, adding that "there's a reason that they're called rockets."
#2. To: Ibluafartsky (#1)
"That won't stop the incessant drone from the 9/11 truther crowd and conspiracy kooks".
#3. To: Murron (#2)
#4. To: Capitalist Eric, Murron (#3)
Do you actually believe their explanation?
#5. To: Murron (#0)
#6. To: Murron, All (#0)
#7. To: Murron (#0)
Barrack Hussein Obama
President of the United States of America said that some Americans ; "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
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