Hyundai Aftermarket - Mysterious missile lights up the sky over the Pacific

http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=13468118&hpt=T2

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Pacific Ocean (CBS8)- A mysterious missile launch off the southern California coast was caught on video Monday evening by a KCBS news helicopter.

The spectacular contrail could easily be seen up in Los Angeles, but who launched this missile and why, remain a mystery for now.

The magnificent images were captured from the KCBS chopper around 5pm. The location of the missile was described as west of Los Angeles, north of Catalina Island, and approximately 35 miles out to sea.

A Navy spokesperson tells News 8, this wasn't its missile. He said there was no Navy activity reported in that part of the region.

On Friday, November 5, Vandenberg Air Force Base launched a Delta II rocket, carrying the Thales Alenia Space-Italia COSMO SkyMed satellite, but a sergeant at the base tells News 8, there have been no launches since then.

News 8 showed the video to Robert Ellsworth, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and a former Deputy Secretary of Defense.

He said it didn't appear to be a Tomahawk missile and said it would be safest to wait for definitive answers to come from the military.

Based on pure speculation, however, Ambassador Ellsworth said, with President Obama in Asia, perhaps this could have been a show of our military muscle.

"It could be a test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine underwater submarine, to demonstrate mainly to Asia, that we can do that," he said, stressing that it was just a theory.

There is no way in hell anyone would perform a test launch of an ICBM, and this WAS an ICBM, 35 miles from a major population center like LA.

Missiles often fail, go haywire, and have to be destroyed, when they do, they have the potential to go any direction they please.... Including over a major city a mere 35 miles away. The potential consequences of that are monumental.

Also, we have no need to demonstrate our ability to launch missiles from Submarines to Asia or anyone else for that matter.

Our ability to do that has been well known for almost 50 years now.

This is very disturbing. The truly frightening part is that it was not aimed at us... Any third party launching an ICBM from American territory at another nation would be immediately interrupted as an American Nuclear strike on wherever the ballistics determine to be the target...

If this is indeed NOT an American launching, and i can't imagine anyone would be stupid enough to test launch a missile 35 miles away from 14 million people, then that means a foreign power has breached US territorial boundaries and initiated launch against parties unknown...

The consequences of this will be dire... The only entities i can imagine with something to gain by this would be Iran or North Korea, both of which have been accused before of breaching US territorial waters and causing disasters, both of which possess missile submarines, and both of which have a vested interest in seeing the USA falsely accused of such a launch.

This raises serious questions regarding the explosion on the Oil Platform in the gulf and the mysterious never-happened-before-or-since- center fuel tank explosion of TWA flight 800...