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Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:57 pm
by Graham Kennedy
Pentagon officials say they cannot explain reports of a missile launch off the coast of California on Monday.
The vapour trail was seen not far off the coast of Los Angeles
A CBS News helicopter captured what looked like the vapour trail of a missile rising from the water about 35 miles (56 km) offshore.
"Right now all indications are that it was not [defence department] involvement in this launch" Pentagon spokesman Col David Lapan said.
The Pentagon does not consider the missile a threat.
"So far we've come up empty with any explanation," Col Lapan said. "We're doing everything we can to try to figure out if anybody has any knowledge of what this event may have been."
Under normal circumstances, the launch of a US missile would require several different authorisations and notifications, but none are evident.
It is unclear if the suspected missile was launched from land or sea.
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Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:02 pm
by Mikey
Mikey, in another thread, wrote:Yeah, but once we annex you guys we were planning on blowing the fault and floating Cali off to the Solomons. Oh, sorry, Striker - we'll keep Marin County, 'cause it's pretty.
Hmm. I guess the West Coast team has moved up their timetable.
Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:06 pm
by SolkaTruesilver
It's either the A-Team on the run, or the Anti-Shield missile running some tests under the radar.
I hope NORAD's radar coverage is better at tracking incoming projectiles than outgoing.
Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:15 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Mikey wrote:Mikey, in another thread, wrote:Yeah, but once we annex you guys we were planning on blowing the fault and floating Cali off to the Solomons. Oh, sorry, Striker - we'll keep Marin County, 'cause it's pretty.
Hmm. I guess the West Coast team has moved up their timetable.
Wait, why am I mentioned here?
Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:29 pm
by Mikey
Because I remembered the wrong DITL member being from Cali.
Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 10:42 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Ah, aha. Meh, it's cool.
Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:31 pm
by Tsukiyumi
Pentagon officials say they cannot explain reports of a missile launch off the coast of California on Monday.
It is unclear if the suspected missile was launched from land or sea.
Good to see we have our best minds on this.
Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:20 am
by Mikey
"We have top men working on it."
"Who?"
"Top. Men."
Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:26 am
by Sonic Glitch
Tsukiyumi wrote:Pentagon officials say they cannot explain reports of a missile launch off the coast of California on Monday.
It is unclear if the suspected missile was launched from land or sea.
Good to see we have our best minds on this.
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Mikey wrote:"We have top men working on it."
"Who?"
"Top. Men."
"Fools. Bureaucratic Fools."
Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:25 am
by Foxbat
Shall
We
Play
A
Game
?
Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:38 am
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Foxbat wrote:Shall
We
Play
A
Game
?
*Chooses tic-tac-toe*
Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 12:35 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Either the military was testing something there that they wanted to keep secret and the helicopter caught it by chance, or the Pentagon really doesn't know who fired it or why. To be honest, the latter is a bit worrying. Can you imagine what might happen if someone set themselves up close to an airport and started lobbing rockets at landing aircraft? Even if they hit nothing, it'd cause a lot of panic.
Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 4:22 pm
by Sonic Glitch
Well, as a friend of mine commented when I posted this on Facebook, it could be:
"When the Pentagon says 'We don't know.' the reality is, 'we know, but we don't want you to know until after what we intend has been accomplished or fubar enough to force us to disclose the information."
Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 4:32 pm
by Mikey
Perhaps. The other possibility is... they really don't know. That's a little scarier.
Re: Mystery Missile launch off US coast
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 4:44 pm
by SolkaTruesilver
Mikey wrote:Perhaps. The other possibility is... they really don't know. That's a little scarier.
Remembers me of "Deuce in the Urinal" South Park episode, where the 9/11 Conspirationists are a Conspiracy.