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Another ‘Mystery Missile’ in the Skies Over Texas?
- Posted on January 5, 2011 at 5:16pm by
Meredith Jessup
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Last November, the Pentagon dismissed rumors of a mysterious missile launch off the coast of California, claiming it was the contrail of an airplane landing in Los Angeles.
Two months later, the Pentagon may once again have to battle rumors of a “missile” launch, this time off the southern coast of Texas. Video via KIII-TV:
In this case however the skeptics are quickly downplaying speculation:
This must be the least missile-like mystery-missile ever. The video shows a jet contrail – barely moving relative to the clouds. It’s just a jet that happened to fly directly overhead, so the approaching contrail looks vertical.
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lindap1667
Posted on January 7, 2011 at 3:01amI think our wonderful goverment is just messing with our heads, the things have to come from somewhere and I trust the goverment about as much as the media. Remember the old saying, believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 5:54pmThe missiles that I saw fired in the mountains of Utah about 10 years ago always had a consistent red flame from the end followed by a white “contrail” that did not dissipate. I don’t see a red flame… the recording wasn’t that good (looks like something I would do)… but I do not see a red flame.
Report Post »nelan72
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 5:19pmWas it a bird? Was it a plane? Was it……
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:58pmSgt.Crust’s lonely hearts club turd…
Report Post »NotaLemming
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 5:02pmCONTRAILS DO NOT LINGER ABOUT. They dissipate as they are harmless water vapor. Sorry but that much is a FACT. I am not saying it is a missile either. Perhaps a HR 2977 or HR 3616 could explain it.
Report Post »Spyder
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 4:19pm“Too Many Secrets”
Report Post »savethenation
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 2:45pmThen again, thinking things over, there could also be the idea of computer hackers from foreign nations getting the codes. Man I hope that’s not the case!
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:56pmmuaaaaaaahahahaha, it was my missle, I fired it from my bathroom!
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 5:47pmI’m telling. :D
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:57pmLOL oh nooooooo mr biilllllllllll
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:48pmCould be an amateur rocket, but it looks like an airliner to me. The atmosphere distorts the trail at the horizon, so you can judge distance… but this is just shaky iPhone video that didn’t even attempt to truly capture it. (How hard is it to brace your arm?)
“Too fast for a plane”
Sounds to me like the classic illusion caused by cloud movement.
Report Post »savethenation
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:29pmThere are private companies that do have the capability to launch missiles up in space for satellite purposes. Who knows? The footage is not the best to really be sure that it’s a missile. After all, everyone is set on paranoid readiness to believe that armageddon is near. Not that I’m saying it is not, but care is needed in questioning what you see here.
Report Post »tinlizy
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:48amI prayed the other day and I live in Texas and I got a shout “get out of texas now!”. I was so alarmed I told my husband. In my prayer I got a “something bad is going to happen in texas”. so I don’t know. my husband works on the base and he may have another job offer in another area and he is considering taking it. Texas has not been all the great. energy is very expensive and our water bill is 200.-500. per month Yes you heard that right 200.00 to 500.00 per month. I get so angry every month as I have never had to pay this kind of bill on water. our power bill and water bill in the summer months is about 1000.00 per month. so I feel texas cost of living is more than california and wages are 30% less here. it sucks.
Report Post »banderashovel
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:18amthese thing are seen over texas all the time…
Report Post »Krutch
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:01amUPS plane? No wonder their packages get here faster than FEDX! The exaust ‘flame’ from the ‘UPS plane’ tells me it weren’t no plane. Go look at any busy airport and show me a similar flame trail and I‘ll show you a plane in trouble and it ain’t no plane. This latest thing could be a plane, but anyone believeing the Calif. thing a plane, I have a bridge to sell ya!
Report Post »IT WAS A WARNING, DUMMIES!
westy98530
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 6:09pmUh huh, so let me get this straight: you see what looks like a flame, therefore it’s a missile. Nevermind of course that based on the resolution of the video, the distance to the flame, and the effects of the atmosphere over that distance, the only thing clear shown in the video is a bright flickering light that is consistent with a flame. But, rather than do any investigation, you immediately jump to the conclusion that it must be a flame.
How about instead, you do a little digging. This group, for instance: http://contrailscience.com/los-angeles-missile-contrail-explained-in-pictures/ found that the “flickering light was also consistent with sunlight reflecting off the aircraft. As a pilot myself, I can certainly vouch for that theory, as that’s the easiest way to spot other aircraft at dusk. That so-called “flame” happens all the time. While you’re at it, you might want to read the rest of that page. It certainly is a LOT more reasonable an explanation than to say that a phantom foreign submarine with capabilities far beyond anything known to the US arrived off our coast and launched a missile that, in turn, also vanished. But not just any missile, a super-special missile that is undetectable by our satellite based missile launch detection systems, and completely invisible to radar. This super-special missile also has the special power of flying dramatically slower than any other missile system in the world. Not only that, it has the ability to change the color of it’s exhaust plume so that it remains orange even as it enters the upper atmosphere (whereas a normal missile plume at sunset would become white as it enters the upper atmosphere). So, after developing and deploying this new submarine and new super-missile, they don’t even take credit for it? Are you kidding me?
Report Post »eat-more-bacon-USA
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:58amJust another “weather balloon” no doubt…wink…wink…
Report Post »westy98530
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:48amGood god, people. Do you have no concept of visual perspective? What would an airplane contrail look like if the plain was flying straight at you overhead? It would look like a damn vertical line, moving upward. It would look exactly like this video. Geez, even the chemtrail theory conspiracy sounds more rational than calling every vertical contrail a missile.
Report Post »savethenation
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 2:49pmMore than likely true what you say. But I will say that the contrail was moving faster than usual for a jet liner…. At least that’s how it appeared. I won‘t lose sleep over it that’s for sure
Report Post »SweetDoug
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:25amWe have something called RADAR and logs. Wouldn’t it just be simpler to have the RADAR logs brought out and the plane identified, especially the one over San Diago? Real easy. Why havent’ they done it.
Report Post »Oops, I woke up… Back to sleep… Zzzzzzzzz
westy98530
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:59amThat takes a little time to actually go over the records. In the case of the California one, they did that very thing and ended up proving it was I think a UPS flight, if I remember correctly. But of course, everybody’s an expert on everything these days, and calling it a plane isn’t nearly as ominous as calling it a missile, so the Blaze way to respond would be to refuse to actually listen to the content of any explanation that doesn’t use the word “missile”, and to stand self righteously against anyone who doesn’t accept that every little thing is a damn government conspiracy.
Report Post »donh2
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 8:11amIts not a mystery. Its a failure of the media to do its job and apply all the means necessary to obtain the truth. Accepting “we don’t know” from the government as an answer or passing on their bogus lies about fireworks and chem trails makes the media an accomplice to the deception of the American people.
Report Post »Wrabbit2000
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 8:31amWhatever investigative resources most media outlets had were cut back or cut out a long time ago. Sadly, this 2 dimensional reporting and teleprompter reading is about all we can expect it seems.
Report Post »tobefreeinmt
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 5:36amA rouge missile is the least of our worries. If I missile lands in a residential area, it wont be an accident. We need to be concern with what the Gov. is pumping out of airplanes…on us.
Report Post »Birds falling from the sky all over the world, fish dying by the millions, streaks in the sky over populated areas and people start dying from respiratory failure in several countries.
Some say it’s biblical. Biblical my ass! It’s the act of desperate governments.
There‘s a lot more that people have to see before it’s all been scrubbed away.
Please check out infowars.com
Times up! Time to wake up, or die!
oldoldtimer
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:39amGoogle: Scalara Weapons and HAARP. You may find the answer there that explains a lot.
Report Post »USAPLISKENXI
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:27amWhat he said wake up or die
Report Post »Flagwaver
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 4:48amWhat will it take for the government to finally wise-up… A missile landing in a residential area? Perhaps an American remake of the Gaza incidents?
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 5:48amIf the government knows what this is they should tell us. If they don’t know, we are in deep trouble. If the government can’t tell us the truth on anything, how can we ever support them. We need the truth.
Report Post »jerryod1627
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:31amPolwatcher, first off the government has not told us the truth for many years, and secondly they probably don’t know, for the most part these people are only concerned with is their own personal gain!
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 7:44amJerry, LOL. Right on, bro.
Report Post »emmanuel Goldstein
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 9:14amPeople will wise up when an EMP wipes out all their little gadgets and plunges us into the Nineteenth Century again. Sure have missed the oil lamps.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:15amSomeone messed up the script for the video – you should alway check your work!!
http://wp.me/pYLB7-uK
snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 10:41amThis time it does appear to be a jet contrail. However, the government will just lie and deny anything they know is actually going on with these situations.
Report Post »nuttyvet
Posted on January 6, 2011 at 11:00amWorst camera work EVER! Here is a lesson: point camera rowards something interesting… HOLD STILL! I don’t know why that annoyed me so much… sorry
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