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Originally posted by HunkaHunka
Originally posted by Retseh
I'm having some trouble seeing this as anything other than an aircraft contrail, I don't see the need for all the excitement.
The Phoenix "launch" however, is far more interesting, and most certainly is NOT an aircraft, at least not a conventional one.
Classic misdirection? Who knows.
Yep... CNN just said the same thing... Its an airplane contrail... Literally an optical illusion...
www.cnn.com...
Mods can we get this reviewed please? And if needed, give it a hoax tag
Originally posted by Nerdling
Originally posted by NorEaster
Originally posted by phantomjack
This was military.
Period.
While I agree that it was military grade equipment, I don't believe it was military. This was done specifically to be seen by a lot of people, and to be reported on by the press. It was done in a way that it caught the Pentagon flat-footed, and since that was the case, it was launched by folks who knew the way that the Pentagon would process the information - as well as how it would come across to te public while that was slowly happening.
It was fired from off-shore - which is important to note, since it makes it impossible to connect it to any of the US military installations in the region - and it was a classic missile-looking missile, which is also important to make note of. No mistaking this thing for anything but a missile, so it wasn't intended to "do anything" other than to be seen and hopefully video-recorded (a clip may have even been recorded to be leaked to the press if the news copter hadn't filmed it) for repeat broadcast (in the same vein as the Flt 175 tower impact on 9/11 was). Video terrorism. And the corporate touch of pulling this stunt while Obama is overseas after getting slammed last week in the mid-term election. Too much pointing to the corporate marketing way of doing things.
That's inaccurate. San Nicolas Island, close to where the contrail was observed, is a US Military facility used for the testing of amongst others things; rockets.
Originally posted by backinblack
reply to post by Gixxer
I think the one on the right was what phage put up from 2009 showing a contrail..
Originally posted by TortoiseKweek
reply to post by TheBigK
Read my post, before you reply!