...it\'s time to \'fess up.

Seriously, this may be the strangest stories I've seen all year.



Onward and upward,
airforce

Of course, it could just be a jet contrail . But that wouldn't be any fun.

Onward and upward,
airforce

Dry run?

Agree!!

airforce
Was it a missle or just ET making his break before the rent is due.

Missile Launch! - Dave was former Nuclear Sub Missle Fire Control Supervisor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNdU7jB97U8

This won't make anyone happy, but I'm leaning towards the theory it was an airplane contrail .

I ruled out the launch of a secret spy satellite, because there are too many other ways to disguise the purpose of a satellite, and because I don't know of any missile that can put a payload in orbit and be launched from a sub (or any surface vessel that I know of, for that matter). And if the government wanted to launch something secretly, they'd do it well out to sea away from the shipping lanes, not a few miles off Catalina island.

But I do like the theory it was one of us. Come on, you guys out in California, tell us how you did it.

Onward and upward,
airforce

It was [b]US Airways Flight 808[/b].

Compare the photo at the top of this thread to the photo of Flight 808 taken the next day:



Of course, we'll be hearing conspiracy theories about it from now until Doomsday. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I still think we should be suggesting the Militia (gasp!) touched it off.

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airforce

I think you have images of 2 different missile launches now.

It's an optical illusion, due to the curvature of the earth and lack of reference points over the ocean. The contrails are actually horizontal, and the airplane is flying roughly toward you.

You're probably familiar with a similar optical illusion. Have you ever seen a full moon close to the horizon at moonrise, while the sun is setting? Did you notice how huge the moon looked? Well, it's actually the same size as it is a few hours later when it's overhead. Again, due to the curvature of the earth and the profusion of reference points near the horizon, it looks larger.

Onward and upward,
airforce

Nothing is confirmed until government denial then there is no doubt !

I traveled straight through that area on November 5th, and I saw dozens of "contrails" that looked very similar to that one, which I believe to have been primarily NAVY jets.

Of course, these "contrails" did not evaporate like the ones I remember watching as a child, and by the time we neared L.A. the sky had been criss-crossed and transformed from cloudless to completely obscured.

Some people, like G. Edward Griffin and Alex Jones might refer to them as "chemtrails."

What In The World Are They Spraying?

Being a retired Air Force weather forecaster, I think I can explain that one. "Contrail" is short for "condensation trail," phenomenon caused by the warm exhaust mixing with a large amount of ice crystals in the upper troposphere. (Some people think this is jet exhaust; it isn't. In fact, contrails were the bane of 8th Air Force bombers during WWII. Who needed radar, when pretty little contrails were pointing right at our bomber formations?)

The meteorological conditions for contrail formation is exactly the same as the meteorological conditions for cirrus type clouds. If you notice from the photos above, there is already a layer of high clouds where contrails are at. This is natural.

Sometimes contrails form at the same time the high clouds are forming. When this happens, the contrails will persist longer, and appear to steadily thicken and grow in size. It is not unusual for contrails to appear to turn gradually into cirrostratus. This happens because the same meteorological conditions are required for both. it is not an indication of "chemtrails" or whatever other theory some people are putting forth. it is a naturally occurring phenomenon.

Strangely enough, the advent of "stealth" technology meant that Air Force forecasters had to once again sharpen their skills at forecasting contrails. A billion-dollar stealth bomber that leaves a contrail ain't real stealthy.

Onward and upward,
airforce

Now, I don't wish to point any fingers... but always teach 'em young...

http://www.rocketryplanet.com/content/view/2656/125/

http://www.anything-rc.com/model-rockets.html

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Come on... it's just as believeable as the "Jet's Con-Trail" story our military is spewing out right now!



Michael

Don't look at me!...My missile is in my pants where it belongs!...If you Check the China mans,I think you'll find his missile is missing!

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-517867?ref=feeds%2Flatest
Picutres link

China Fired Missile Seen In Southern California CNN

I think Glenn Beck as talking about that theory on his radio show. Our government was denying it (naturally), and I don't know of any way to independently prove or disprove it. I think if it were a missile launch, enough pilots would have seen it and enough people would have seen it on their radar screens that it would have been pretty hard to keep it a secret.

Meteorological conditions support the contrails theory though, and the rule of Occam's razor suggests that is the most likely explanation. But we'll likely never know for sure.

Onward and upward,
airforce

My son and I plan on launching a hobby rocket today.