WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Tuesday it did not know what created a vapor trail that crossed the skies off the Southern California coast and resembled a missile launch.
Video posted on the CBS News website shows an object flying through the evening sky Monday that left a large contrail, or vapor trail. A news helicopter owned by KCBS, a CBS affiliate in Los Angeles, shot the video.
Pentagon officials were stumped by the event. "Nobody within the Department of Defense that we've reached out to has been able to explain what this contrail is, where it came from," Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said.
While the vapor cloud captured on video resembled that created by a rocket in flight, military officials said they didn't know of any launches in the area.
One expert called it an optical illusion. "It's an airplane that is heading toward the camera and the contrail is illuminated by the setting sun," said John Pike, director of the U.S.-based security analyst group globalsecurity.org.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, issued a statement jointly with the U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, saying no Department of Defense entities reported a missile launch — scheduled or inadvertent — at the time of the contrail, and no foreign military missile launch was detected.
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6 comments:
interesting. a no win situation. either it was launched intentionally (defending attack?) or launched accidentally (major oops). either way, bad news. ~OR~ couldve been someone other than our own military. in the case, we dont know what it was or who was shooting it? really bad!
Our commander and chief of the military , obamie. Does he know about this , I don't think so , no big deal to him. What a leader , he trying a last ditch effort to get 3rd world countries on our side , what a joke this idiot is.
200 million a day for what? 2 more years and this country will be gone ! Gas prices will sky rocket and his bailout of GM to encourage people to by huge vehickles will allow gas to go beyond $5.00 gal.
Iam so proud of these men. How can some one tell them how to and when to bow there headsGOD BLESS THEM ALL. WE nedd more of this. And for people to not tell when and how to pray. God bless the USA!!!!!!
Ever heard of "The Skunk Works" and the government said it wasn't a missle but they didn't say it wasn't a US test of a hypersonic plane gone slightly awry.
Think about it.
9:17 you are an idiot who would rather spout garbage than take a second to look up facts. So here are some suggestions for you to look up:
#1 US to India export statistics
#2 war on terror in Indonesia and India
#3 the Korean conflict
#4 US-S. Korea economic ties
#5 N. Korea military stance
#6 India's growing power in Asia
#7 typical cost of US pres. travel
Then come back and try to spout on about this trip being a huge waste. Until then, do us all a favor and shut up!
9:17 - The $200 Million a day number was proven to be BS a long, long time ago. Ignoring facts is not very intelligent.
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