A bit of a mystery
 

Mysterious missile lights up the sky over the Pacific

Would this type of thing happen without notifying any other nation?

http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13468118

Could have been a sounding rocket.

During the vid someone comments on the size of the contrail. It does seem large. Would a sounding rocket produce that size a contrail?

Someone just sent me a link to the story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40087187...news-security/

'Pentagon and Navy baffled' ........ That doesn't sound good.

NORAD most certainly tracked it and knows where it started and ended.

Depends on how close it was to the people taking the pictures, with out any objects of reference its hard to tell, it could be 15 feet from a camera. razark vid also suggests it might be amateurs or a accidental launch from an military aircraft (it happens).

It appears to be on a ballistic trajectory. Does the AF still have the ASM-135 ASAT in its inventory?

No the ASAT has been retired. But its possible that an aircraft in a climb could accidentally launch a AAM causing a ballistic trajectory.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_htvjsmtPrm...400/094new.jpg

:hmmm:

Unlikely...

http://www.owned.com/Owned_Pictures/...tton_OWNED.jpg


More likely :yep:

But the contrail........

Looks more like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95tFG...eature=related

Than any of these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9LFv...eature=related

I guess we'll find out soon enough

Someone pushed the BIG RED BUTTON. :stare: This not the missile you are looking for. I think we just found Area 52. :03:

Comet NEAT :88)

Alright, who's the ******* that screwed with the launch console? :stare:

You're right, I'm just looking at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2qKMchcgzk

That's definitely a ballistic missile of some sort... :hmmm:

Holy $hit! Good video.

Yea that is a big bird. Guessing SLBM or a large interceptor missile.

Old dude in the video was wrong though the only live (yes a live nuke) SLBM test by the US was launched from the Pacific at a target in the Indian Ocean. It was called Frigate Bird.