So, What Was Recorded Off The Coast of California?

Is it just me, or is there a pattern here? I remember as soon as I heard about the shooting at Fort Hood; we were told by the FBI, "It's not a terror related incident". Of course the FBI couldn't tell why it happened, but they could tell us why it didn't? What did it end up being? A Muslim terrorist. Hmm... Then you have the attempted bombing of Times Square. Again we were told that it must be some lone gun, someone with a chip on their shoulder, it couldn't be terror related. Again Muslim terrorist.

Now I'm not saying that this has anything to do with Muslim terrorists. I'm just questioning what we are supposed believe. We are again hearing that it's NOT what it appears to be. Nobody can say what it is, but everyone knows what it's not.

(CBS) More than a day after a CBS camera caught video of an unidentified projectile leaving a condensation trail off the California coast, the situation remains a mystery, with the Defense Department insisting that it was not a missile.

The Pentagon is still not sure what that was in the sky off the coast of California -- except that it was not a missile fired by the U.S. or some other country, reports CBS News Pentagon correspondent David Martin.

The Federal Aviation Administration did not receive any reports of a missile from other pilots in the area or track any unusually fast objects. The Air Defense Command determined the object was not traveling fast enough or have a big enough exhaust plume to be a military missile.

The best guess right now is that it was either an airliner or an amateur rocket, but we may never know for certain.

The Pentagon spends billions of dollars a year making sure it is never surprised by a missile launch - so finding out what the camera saw became a top priority. Both the Navy and the Air Force insisted they had not launched any missiles and the North American Air Defense Command - which is supposed to track incoming missiles - declared it had not been fired by any other military. But nobody could say what it was.

I don't claim to know exactly what it is, but I can tell you that I highly doubt anything the Pentagon claims. The FAA has already said that there were no flights scheduled in that area at that time; what else, if not a missile, could it be?

If it were an airplane wouldn't that be even worse? If what the Pentagon is saying is correct; that would mean that there are airplanes flying around right off the west coast and the FAA and NORAD have no knowledge of it!

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