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I just saw the most unexpected thing. Leaving a warehouse we have on a state highway, I saw a bunch of vehicles coming with flashing yellow and white lights. The first 2 were white trucks with high poles off the front for height clearance safety. Two meant this isn't moving a house or big trailer. Behind was 6 more white SUVs also with a lot of flashing yellow lights. Then a semi truck.
The truck was towing a missile wrapped in black plastic. About 90 to 100 feet long and 8 foot in diameter. It had a round nose like a ball bullet and a huge single nozzle at the back. This was followed by 6 more white SUVs with flashing yellow lights and only 1 state trooper cruiser - this just before 10 PM. No local sheriff's vehicles or any other law enforcement, suggesting this is very secret since there is a large sheriff's department presence here.
This is a very small city on the Gulf of Mexico. There is no military base anywhere near here of any kind and the nearest sizable city is about 60 miles away (Tampa). I couldn't even guess what it could be for. Too long for a ship or sub, but seemed too short to be intercontinental nor would it make any sense to put an intercontinental missile here.
But there is something here. One of the oldest nuclear power plants in the country, but shut down for a cracked containment chamber too costly to repair, plus 4 coal burning plants - only about 10 miles by road from here - and that state highway is the route to take to get to the North-South Interstate about 20 miles to the West down that highway. The closest large port is Tampa (a big port) about 60 miles South on the Interstate they were headed towards.
OK, military guys, what kind of missile do you think it is? All I can figure is an anti-ballistic missile missile that was to high altitude defend the nuclear power plant plus the others. While the nuclear power plant can never be demolished for radiation, it has been shutdown for a few years and probably now is "cool enough" to no longer poise a large scale radiation danger if blown up, though the coal burning plants remain and a huge natural gas generator is being added. The overall power unit provides electricity to millions of people and multiple major cities, plus is on the national grid of course. However, contemporaneous in time is the facility has laid off many hundreds of people.
I can't think of any other possible reason for that missile being here or passing thru here. Whether going North, South or East, there is no reason to go this way unless headed towards the Interstate (I 75). To the West is the Gulf. There is nothing notable down this state highway other than connection to I75. All I can think of it that it's coming from the nuclear power plant, which is a massive site that to this day is protected by guards on the ground, on the water in boats, and vehicles all armed with military rifles.
What is your guess what kind of missile that is? About 90 to 100 feet long, about 8 feet wide, bullet shaped nose and with a single rear nozzle the diameter of the missile? It was not on a trailer that is a mobile launcher setup.
The truck was towing a missile wrapped in black plastic. About 90 to 100 feet long and 8 foot in diameter. It had a round nose like a ball bullet and a huge single nozzle at the back. This was followed by 6 more white SUVs with flashing yellow lights and only 1 state trooper cruiser - this just before 10 PM. No local sheriff's vehicles or any other law enforcement, suggesting this is very secret since there is a large sheriff's department presence here.
This is a very small city on the Gulf of Mexico. There is no military base anywhere near here of any kind and the nearest sizable city is about 60 miles away (Tampa). I couldn't even guess what it could be for. Too long for a ship or sub, but seemed too short to be intercontinental nor would it make any sense to put an intercontinental missile here.
But there is something here. One of the oldest nuclear power plants in the country, but shut down for a cracked containment chamber too costly to repair, plus 4 coal burning plants - only about 10 miles by road from here - and that state highway is the route to take to get to the North-South Interstate about 20 miles to the West down that highway. The closest large port is Tampa (a big port) about 60 miles South on the Interstate they were headed towards.
OK, military guys, what kind of missile do you think it is? All I can figure is an anti-ballistic missile missile that was to high altitude defend the nuclear power plant plus the others. While the nuclear power plant can never be demolished for radiation, it has been shutdown for a few years and probably now is "cool enough" to no longer poise a large scale radiation danger if blown up, though the coal burning plants remain and a huge natural gas generator is being added. The overall power unit provides electricity to millions of people and multiple major cities, plus is on the national grid of course. However, contemporaneous in time is the facility has laid off many hundreds of people.
I can't think of any other possible reason for that missile being here or passing thru here. Whether going North, South or East, there is no reason to go this way unless headed towards the Interstate (I 75). To the West is the Gulf. There is nothing notable down this state highway other than connection to I75. All I can think of it that it's coming from the nuclear power plant, which is a massive site that to this day is protected by guards on the ground, on the water in boats, and vehicles all armed with military rifles.
What is your guess what kind of missile that is? About 90 to 100 feet long, about 8 feet wide, bullet shaped nose and with a single rear nozzle the diameter of the missile? It was not on a trailer that is a mobile launcher setup.
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