California Missle Launch?

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Anyone see the video on the news of what appears to be a missle or rocket of some sort blasting off in California on Monday night?

The Pentagon has issued a statement that it is merely the contrail (vapor trail) of a jet airplane. They also said that it's an optical illusion that makes it appear to climbing straight up, that in fact it's coming towards the camera.

Seems to me that in the close up video you can clearly see the flame of the engine that would only be visible if it were moving away from the camera.

I wonder what we were launching/testing?
 
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Yeah I saw that too. It doesn't look like a plane to me. It looks like a missle was launched and I've never seen an airliner take off like that!
 
LAX has a couple of runways that head out over the ocean in that area. If the US launched something, it was a mistake and someones career is over, unless it was a super secret satellite and weather conditions got in the way of the secret.
 
If you want a launch to be secret, do it when people are SLEEPING!! Mid-day there are too many cameras.

IIRC, however, Mighty Mouse left a trail just like that---so that's probably what it was!!
 
I saw the video, it is a rocket for sure but if it was not us then who? If it was us and it was a mistake than it will not be just one persons job on the line.
 
Some amateur model rocketry clubs (portland oregon for example) have some rockets so big they have to file launch plans with the FAA and NASA..... could have just been some geeks with too much beer in em.....
 
MatthewZS said:
Some amateur model rocketry clubs (portland oregon for example) have some rockets so big they have to file launch plans with the FAA and NASA..... could have just been some geeks with too much beer in em.....
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I had the same thought meself
 
ICBM fired to carry instrument package in place of warhead for testing purposes. Target area is the mid pacific missile test range in the Marshal Islands. Several are fired every year from Vandenburg as well as naval sources. I spent several years working on Kajawlein Island right in the big middle of it. My guess would be it's just another test.

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Some say planes can't go up at that angle. While I'm not saying it was one, an F-15 Eagle can go vertical like that with ease. And with the afterburners lit, it would show the flames too.


Now as to what it is.......Haven't a clue.


The comment on Curtis trying out a new Pressure pot has me rolling though.
 
Russianwolf said:
Some say planes can't go up at that angle. While I'm not saying it was one, an F-15 Eagle can go vertical like that with ease. And with the afterburners lit, it would show the flames too.


Now as to what it is.......Haven't a clue.


The comment on Curtis trying out a new Pressure pot has me rolling though.
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F-15....go vertical.....

When I was in Viet Nam, I watched an F-4 go vertical just as they were calling a 'Rocket' attack! It went up with after-burners going full bore until it could go no further and then it rolled 'North'. It was taking off towards the south when all heck broke loose.....that was a night to remember! Never saw one do that again.


Barney
 
My first duty station was Naval Station Mayport. I was standing outside our building one day and watched and F-14 perform and unrestriced climb. He got about 15 feet of the ground and pointed the nose straight up at full throttle. Car alarms were going off all over the base and I could not hear anything for five minutes. That is a sight I will never forget.
 
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