Mystery Missile Launch in California

[Ivan Seeking]

That's the impression the media is hoping to achieve when they release headlines containing misleading words "missle launch" and incorporate ficticious details like "35 miles off the coast."

I think you are being way too hard on the press here. It did look like a missile launch. It is easy to understand why people were fooled. And the 35 mile number no doubt comes from the distance to the horizon at elevation. The contrail seemed to originate from the ocean. Given that one could see it going all the way down to the water, but just barely, the implied distance to the launch point is about 35 miles.

When the Pentagon was asked, they shrugged and couldn't offer an explanation. Is it any wonder it became a story? The press would have been derelict in their duties to ignore it given no proper explanation. At first it was assumed to be a military test.

 

[BobG]

I think you are being way too hard on the press here. It did look like a missile launch. It is easy to understand why people were fooled. And the 35 mile number no doubt comes from the distance to the horizon at elevation. The contrail seemed to originate from the ocean. Given that one could see it going all the way down to the water, but just barely, the implied distance to the launch point is about 35 miles.

When the Pentagon was asked, they shrugged and couldn't offer an explanation. Is it any wonder it became a story? The press would have been derelict in their duties to ignore it given no proper explanation. At first it was assumed to be a military test.

The press having a lack of information about something is a good reason for them to do a news story on it?

The only difference between this story and your typical UFO story is that at least the TV station could be sure it wasn't an intentional hoax. Seeing as how this contrail would only look like a missile launch from a specific angle, didn't the fact that no one else in the city noticed a missile in the sky make them wonder about what they saw?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

The press having a lack of information about something is a good reason for them to do a news story on it?

The only difference between this story and your typical UFO story is that at least the TV station could be sure it wasn't an intentional hoax. Seeing as how this contrail would only look like a missile launch from a specific angle, didn't the fact that no one else in the city noticed a missile in the sky make them wonder about what they saw?

I think you are all just hypernegative on the press, which is a popular fad these days. They were just doing their job.

Why would anyone in the city see a missile in the sky 35 miles out? Jeez!

I would add that within minutes of first report that I saw, they were running the claim that it might just be an optical illusion. Would you have them draw a conclusion with no facts? At first they thought it was a missile, and they almost immediately modified the claim when given new information.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Anyone watching CNN knew almost immediately that it might just be an illusion.

 

[bassplayer142]

I'm confused about the actual importance of this whole incident. So if it really was a plane and was proven, no one will care. If it was a missile shot by the US government then who really cares anyway? Don't they test missiles and other weapons routinely anyway? The only thing that would make this stand out is that the launch was not publicized beforehand. Other then that if it was terrorists or some other country they would obviously take credit for it.

I just don't understand how this so called "conspiracy" is even a conspiracy at all. If you look up the definition of conspiracy this incident does not have some kind of sinister master plan, it does not benefit anyone in any way.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conspiracy