A bit of a mystery

[SteamWake]

I think it was done to advertise Bush's new book

All this talk about the goverment not knowing has got to be untrue.

Wouldent an event like this set NORAD on point?

[razark]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Wouldent an event like this set NORAD on point?

How often does NORAD put out press releases?

I've seen a few reports that it was a contrail from an aircraft filmed from an odd angle.

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Wouldent an event like this set NORAD on point?

I would think/hope that is the case but they ain't talking either.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

I think it was done to advertise Bush's new book

All this talk about the goverment not knowing has got to be untrue.

Wouldent an event like this set NORAD on point?

Apparently the alert level is still on DEFCON 4, so if NORAD did pick it up they're obviously not thinking much of it.

http://www.talkradionews.com/news/20...plainable.html

But if this was something harmless, why the devil haven't they dismissed it already? I mean, I know whenever something screws up in the US military the entire establishment goes into turtle mode and getting info out is like pulling teeth but the bafflement from the Pentagon is not reassuring...

Originally Posted by razark

I've seen a few reports that it was a contrail from an aircraft filmed from an odd angle.

I've looked @ the vid a few more times than often and it appears the city is down and the missile is up. It was photoged from a news chopper. How odd an angle could account for this?

NORAD would most certainly have detected the launch via satellite during the boost phase, which this appears to be. That there is no official word I'd say NORAD knew of it beforehand and .............. I don't know.

[Molon Labe]

"When someone makes an unannounced launch what looks to be a ballistic missile 35 miles from the nations second largest city (at sea in international waters), and 18 hours later NORAD still doesn't have any answers at all - that complete lack of information represents a credible threat to national security. If NORAD can't answer the first and last question, then I believe it is time to question every single penny of ballistic missile defense funding in the defense budget. NORTHCOM needs to start talking about what they do know, rather than leaving the focus on what they don't know."
--Galrahn, Information Dissemination.net

Originally Posted by Molon Labe

"When someone makes an unannounced launch what looks to be a ballistic missile 35 miles from the nations second largest city (at sea in international waters), and 18 hours later NORAD still doesn't have any answers at all - that complete lack of information represents a credible threat to national security. If NORAD can't answer the first and last question, then I believe it is time to question every single penny of ballistic missile defense funding in the defense budget. NORTHCOM needs to start talking about what they do know, rather than leaving the focus on what they don't know."
--Galrahn, Information Dissemination.net

Agreed. Think if it were a missile aimed 180° from where it was. Houston would be gone. And worse.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Molon Labe

"When someone makes an unannounced launch what looks to be a ballistic missile 35 miles from the nations second largest city (at sea in international waters), and 18 hours later NORAD still doesn't have any answers at all - that complete lack of information represents a credible threat to national security. If NORAD can't answer the first and last question, then I believe it is time to question every single penny of ballistic missile defense funding in the defense budget. NORTHCOM needs to start talking about what they do know, rather than leaving the focus on what they don't know."
--Galrahn, Information Dissemination.net

I was just about to post that.

Very true. I mean, if the answer is classified, fair enough, just say that they have an answer, they know who launched it, it's not a threat to national security but unfortunately it is classified. Not a simple 'hell if I know'!

Originally Posted by Oberon

I was just about to post that.

Very true. I mean, if the answer is classified, fair enough, just say that they have an answer, they know who launched it, it's not a threat to national security but unfortunately it is classified. Not a simple 'hell if I know'!

WikiLeaks will post it soon enough.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Or Sunset Sasparilla Star Bottle Caps.

Bring them with you if you ever come out east and we'll play some Caravan.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by The Third Man

I've looked @ the vid a few more times than often and it appears the city is down and the missile is up. It was photoged from a news chopper. How odd an angle could account for this?

Its swamp gas

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by The Third Man

WikiLeaks will post it soon enough.

NORTHCOM is: “unable to provide specific details… [but] can confirm that there is no threat to our nation, and from all indications this was not a launch by a foreign military.”

So, it's highly likely an internal launch or quite possibly a contrail.


Like this one.

If it's an internal launch then either someone has not sent a memo to someone else because a NOTAM was not issued until after the event, or someone pressed the wrong button and it was an accidental launch, in which case the reports of the US not having a kill option on their nukes after launch is bogus because nowhere as gone up in a giant fireball yet.

[nikimcbee]

With the bamster incharge....

Maybe this is our land-a-cessna-on-Red Square- what -the -hell -are -your air defences doing moment?

or, maybe China wants us to pay up? Didn't we borrow a couple bucks from them?

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

With the bamster incharge....

Maybe this is our land-a-cessna-on-Red Square- what -the -hell -are -your air defences doing moment?

or, maybe China wants us to pay up? Didn't we borrow a couple bucks from them?

Actually they have been buying from us.... our debt. Maybe its time to start bustin kneecaps