This is very simple, it is not a missile.
I have seen dozen of missile launches. And this was not a missile.
These are a few examples of what a missile actually looks like:
PATRIOT PAC-3 launch.
YouTube - Missile Launch
Series of launches from Vandenberg AFB.
YouTube - Vandenberg Launch Compilation
Delta II launch from Vandenberg AFB.
YouTube - Delta II Launch at Vandenberg: MDA Satellite STSS ATRR
And the newest missile in the US Aresonl, THAAD.
YouTube - THAAD Test
And a pair of Navy SM-2 missiles.
YouTube - US Navy Guided Missile Cruiser, missile launch
Now if that is a missile, it is the first slow-speed missile I have ever seen. I have never seen a missile that flys that slow, and see no reason to ever make one.
Simple reason, it is not a missile. It's an airplane.
I don't buy that it was an airplane. I do buy that they aren't going to tell us what it was, but I'm sure they know.
OK, it was not an airplane. It also was very obviously not a missile.
So what was it?
Excuse me, a slow rocket?
*walks in circles shaking head*
No such thing. This is real life, not an old 1970's Andy Griffith TV show. With only a few exceptions, a missile can't adjust it's throttle. And because it lacks things like airfoils that allow it to perform at slow speeds, it can't go slower. Any attempt would simply have it flipping back over and crashing. And that certainly happened enough in the early days (and still happens occasionally today).
And in case you did not get the reference, Andy stared in a series called "Salvage 1" in the 1970's. The main focus of the series was a moon/space rocket that was designed to work at low thrust ratios and speeds. It was not realistic in any scientific way, but it helps the special effects budget low.
YouTube - Salvage-1 A Second Clip from "Golden Orbit" Andy Grifith
Now if that is a missile, it is the first slow-speed missile I have ever seen. I have never seen a missile that flys that slow, and see no reason to ever make one.
Simple reason, it is not a missile. It's an airplane.
We know what it wasn't. We just dont know what it was.
If you don't know what it was then how could you know what it wasn't?
It wasnt a flying house going in reverse from Kansas. Thats for sure.
Only reason why'd i could think anyone would want to make a slow missle is to make it aquire tons more targets before it fully speeds up. Or maybe to make it juke certain auto defense reactions.
We know what it wasn't. We just dont know what it was.
If you don't know what it was then how could you know what it wasn't?
It wasnt a flying house going in reverse from Kansas. Thats for sure.
Only reason why'd i could think anyone would want to make a slow missle is to make it aquire tons more targets before it fully speeds up. Or maybe to make it juke certain auto defense reactions.
The "mystery missile" was US Airways 808 from Honolulu to Phoenix.
It was US Airways flight 808 | Time to Think
Mystery ****ing solved
@oozlefinch, an airplane? You're really buying that crap?
Anyone who has seen a large missile launch understands that they are very slow moving on initial take-off. The speediness of a missile doesn't activate until it loses its initial burners. They eventually detach. It very much resembles a long-distance missile.
While it would be in my best interest to NOT discuss what I believe it to be, here is WHY it was NOT a plane. And I only need to leave you one point for now.
1) EVERY aircraft in the U.S., and even foreign aircraft, have extremely traceable flight signatures, especially that close to our coast. Every plane has an electronic flight path, itinerary, details on where it is going, etc.
If you remember correctly, during 9/11, we knew of all of the planes that went off grid, and were on incorrect flight paths.
So... why was there no record of the plane destination?
@theangryamerica - LOL... I've done much more than read what other people come up with. In my line of work, we analyze this kind of stuff all of the time, do studies, research, create analysis, brief what we've come up with, etc.
For something of this magnitude (aircraft, missile, etc.) to be a "mystery" in a country such as America with the highly advanced radar technologies that we possess is simply not possible.
Even civilians can track U.S. flights, paths, patterns and itinerary using searchable websites, so to think our government simply has no idea how to confidently explain the "missile" is nothing short of ridiculous.
If it was a plane, then it wasn't a U.S. plane... which would still be cause for alarm, as we do not allow unidentified aircraft, especially one large enough to leave a contrail like the one in the video, to be flown without permission in the U.S.
Maybe you should do a bit MORE than just reading.
@oozlefinch, an airplane? You're really buying that crap?
Anyone who has seen a large missile launch understands that they are very slow moving on initial take-off. The speediness of a missile doesn't activate until it loses its initial burners. They eventually detach. It very much resembles a long-distance missile.
I never asserted that it was, in fact, a ballistics missile, as I've seen reports that it was potentially a foreign aircraft. My conclusion is, and always has been, that the fact that it was called a mystery, and NOBODY in the DOD, DIA, NGA, FAA, etc. could CONFIDENTLY identify what it was despite the fact that we knew it's EXACT location.
Our new resident "missileologist"?@theangryamerica - LOL... I've done much more than read what other people come up with. In my line of work, we analyze this kind of stuff all of the time, do studies, research, create analysis, brief what we've come up with, etc.
Agreed.For something of this magnitude (aircraft, missile, etc.) to be a "mystery" in a country such as America with the highly advanced radar technologies that we possess is simply not possible.
Agreed, which is why some civilian DID demonstrate this to be nothing more than a plane.Even civilians can track U.S. flights, paths, patterns and itinerary using searchable websites, so to think our government simply has no idea how to confidently explain the "missile" is nothing short of ridiculous.
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