[meteorite-list] Not a missile -- a jet contrail

[Richard Kowalski]

I'm not so sure I agree with you Rob.

The original footage is here:

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2010/11/09/pentagon-cant-explain-missile-off-california-coast/


The trail looks like many other rocket launches I've seen in twilight. Note the appearance is a vertical climb and then arcing over, down range.

Note too that there are no other contrails in the sky.

I certainly hope it is a contrail, but it looks very much like a submarine launched ballistic missile.


--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081


--- On Tue, 11/9/10, Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com> wrote:

> From: Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Not a missile -- a jet contrail
> To: Impactika at aol.com, drtanuki at yahoo.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, meteorobs at meteorobs.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 6:31 PM
> Hi All,
> 
> We've seen this sort of thing before, folks. It's not a
> missile launch.
> It's
> just a sunlit contrail from an airliner flying toward (and
> to the right)
> of
> the camera. SLBMs are not launched so close to the
> California coastline,
> and certainly not without submitting a NOTAM.  --Rob
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
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> On Behalf Of
> Impactika at aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 5:23 PM
> To: drtanuki at yahoo.com;
> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com;
> meteorobs at meteorobs.org
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Not a Meteor? California A
> LAunch?
> 
> In a message dated 11/9/2010 6:14:23 PM Mountain Standard
> Time,
> drtanuki at yahoo.com
> writes:
> http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2010/11/not-meteor-meteormeteo
> rite-news.html
> 
> Hope FOX News checked their sources!  Tokyo
> --------------------------------------------------------
>  
> 
> On AOL News:
> http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/mystery-missile-lights-up-los-
> angeles-skies/19709162?icid=main%7Cwelcome%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C183117
> 
> More reliable than Fox?
> 
> Anne M. Black
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