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Originally posted by Phage
You didn't read the article?
It was the Minuteman III from Vandenberg.
www.vandenberg.af.mil...
edit on 6/29/2011 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by MamaJ
I am assuming this is not the first launch ever done? Why now would it make something appear in the sky? It creeped me out watching the video....looked like a Planet on the Horizon. Gave me the heebie jeebies!
Originally posted by OccamAssassin
Looks like a pretty poor attempt at cgi.
For webcam footage, the time-stamp seems to be ticking along at a pretty fast rate.
If the webcam has such a high rate-of refresh, then I'd expect the expanding "orb" to be a bit smoother in its movement.
Originally posted by MamaJ
I am assuming this is not the first launch ever done? Why now would it make something appear in the sky? It creeped me out watching the video....looked like a Planet on the Horizon. Gave me the heebie jeebies!
Originally posted by R3KR
Its was probably a missile that broke the sound barrier and was visible because of the air density composition. Here is a video that looks almost identical: (FF 01:50)
edit on 30-6-2011 by R3KR because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by OccamAssassin
Looks like a pretty poor attempt at cgi.
For webcam footage, the time-stamp seems to be ticking along at a pretty fast rate.
If the webcam has such a high rate-of refresh, then I'd expect the expanding "orb" to be a bit smoother in its movement.
Originally posted by scoobyrob
Originally posted by Phage
You didn't read the article?
It was the Minuteman III from Vandenberg.
www.vandenberg.af.mil...
edit on 6/29/2011 by Phage because: (no reason given)
why is the time different in that video from the video in the op link??
even if you take into account the time difference, the minutes dont match, in the vid you posted it was 35 min in the hour and the vid in the op link its 41 min??
in the op link video its 03:41, in the vid you posted, its 13:35. thats a BIG time difference me thinks
Originally posted by Quaid
Originally posted by scoobyrob
Originally posted by Phage
You didn't read the article?
It was the Minuteman III from Vandenberg.
www.vandenberg.af.mil...
edit on 6/29/2011 by Phage because: (no reason given)
why is the time different in that video from the video in the op link??
even if you take into account the time difference, the minutes dont match, in the vid you posted it was 35 min in the hour and the vid in the op link its 41 min??
in the op link video its 03:41, in the vid you posted, its 13:35. thats a BIG time difference me thinks
Hi
If you look at the Vandenburg launch that Phage posted again it shows at the begining a black screen with the launch details.
It looks like there were two launch tests. One at 06:34:59 and another at 13:34:59.
I just looked up the time difference and California is ahead of Hawaii by about 3 hours. That seems to fit with the test launch.
All the best
Quaid