[meteorite-list] Not a missile -- a jet contrail

From: Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 17:31:05 -0800
Message-ID: <9180F6B27399C541B10663E21C8BDE9292835B_at_0461-its-exmb09.us.saic.com>

Hi All,

We've seen this sort of thing before, folks. It's not a missile launch.
It's
just a sunlit contrail from an airliner flying toward (and to the right)
of
the camera. SLBMs are not launched so close to the California coastline,
and certainly not without submitting a NOTAM. --Rob

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In a message dated 11/9/2010 6:14:23 PM Mountain Standard Time,
drtanuki at yahoo.com writes:
http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2010/11/not-meteor-meteormeteo
rite-news.html

Hope FOX News checked their sources! Tokyo
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On AOL News:
http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/mystery-missile-lights-up-los-
angeles-skies/19709162?icid=main%7Cwelcome%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%7C183117

More reliable than Fox?

Anne M. Black
http://www.impactika.com/
IMPACTIKA at aol.com
President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
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Received on Tue 09 Nov 2010 08:31:05 PM PST