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Old 11-09-2010, 07:30 PM   #21
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It's Tom Cruise rocketing up to the Scientology mother ship.
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Old 11-09-2010, 07:34 PM   #23
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It's Tom Cruise rocketing up to the Scientology mother ship.
Is John Travolta with him?
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Old 11-09-2010, 07:38 PM   #24
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Is John Travolta with him?
He's flying the thing. They're using the fat Kirstie Alley lost for rocket fuel.
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Old 11-09-2010, 07:39 PM   #25
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If the Chinese or others were messing with the US Naval exercises, and blasted off a missile, would we ever be told ? Never.
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If the Chinese or others were messing with the US Naval exercises, and blasted off a missile, would we ever be told ? Never.
Why not?
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Old 11-09-2010, 08:00 PM   #28
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Looks an awful lot like a Trident II missile off of a boomer.

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Old 11-09-2010, 08:08 PM   #29
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It does look like a ballistic missile track and not a cruise missile launch. The Chinese have the new type 094 ballistic missile sub, I doubt they'd put a ballistic missile submarine at risk in American territorial waters, and frankly doing that and launching there would break a lot of pretty significant treaties.

The Russians only have the Typhoons with 2 in service, and the old Delta IV class boats. But again putting a boat within site distances of LA and launching missiles would break a ton of treaties, and goes against Soviet ballistic missile submarine doctrine.

The only other countries that could launch those types of missiles are France, and Great Britain, The Indian's are building their own ballistic missile class but it won't be ready for trials til later next year.

I'm betting this was an American down range test and the missile was self destructed.
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The amount of air traffic out of LAX I would think this would be a common sight if it was a plane.

I don't think the CBS air crew would make such a big deal about it if it was nothing unusual.
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I'm betting this was an American down range test and the missile was self destructed.
Apparently they launch and plant Minute Man ICBMs on those Pacific Islands pretty regularly.

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Today, Air Force's Minuteman weapon arsenal consists of 450 Minuteman 3 missiles located at bases in Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota, according to an Air Force fact sheet. The missiles are made of three distinct stages that, when assembled, stand about 60 feet (18 meters) tall and weigh 79,432 pounds (32,158 kg)
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...le-100630.html

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Maybe it was the Aurora spy plane

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Apparently they launch and plant Minute Man ICBMs on those Pacific Islands pretty regularly.
Yup they do, but for most test if I read right they like to self destruct them and recover an instruments package downrange.
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Old 11-09-2010, 08:30 PM   #34
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The meteorologist said they see it often, and mentions how a specific set of conditions makes something like this more visible.

And there's a flight track that lines up with the flight and the time.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A...955Z/PHNL/KPHX

A missile launch would still have to clear out all air traffic in the area, even if it was secret.

News crews make a big deal out of everything, that's their job.

More video.
http://www.necn.com/11/09/10/Mysteri...mp;feedID=4213

If it was an ICBM going up to 1200km, the contrail would have widely different intensity and colours due to different levels of sunlight reaching it.
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And if you look at the necn.com video, about 2/3rd of the way through it comes out of the contrail conducive section of air.

More here with other similar pictures:

http://contrailscience.com/a-problem...-eve-contrail/
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Typical cover up & Photon's obviously part of it.
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That's exactly what you'd say if you were orchestrating a cover up! You coveruperer
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Old 11-09-2010, 11:37 PM   #38
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The meteorologist said they see it often, and mentions how a specific set of conditions makes something like this more visible.

And there's a flight track that lines up with the flight and the time.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/A...955Z/PHNL/KPHX

A missile launch would still have to clear out all air traffic in the area, even if it was secret.

News crews make a big deal out of everything, that's their job.

More video.
http://www.necn.com/11/09/10/Mysteri...mp;feedID=4213

If it was an ICBM going up to 1200km, the contrail would have widely different intensity and colours due to different levels of sunlight reaching it.
I don't get it. If they see it so often, why are people in the area making such a fuss of it? And why wouldn't the CBS air crew (who shot the video), have seen it before?

Pretty cool looking, regardless.
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