If they can't figure out where the con trail came from, I want my money back.

[Stinky The Clown]

What the fuck have you guys been doing with all that pricey MIC hardware?

It was a BIG fucking con trail.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Wavy, red, from my vantage point like a banner in front of the

sun... quite breathtaking.

[Mimosa]

2. Too dumb to have devised a CYA story for 'just in case'?

FAILED, didn't they?

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. oh they know

As I keep saying... Skunk Works is in the area. I cannot help people otherwise, THis happens REGULARLY and REGULARLY it is the same song and dance.

[Ian David]

4. It's an optical illusion

Jet contrails, from some angles, look like missile trails
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9522175

[Windy]

6. Its not a contrail. That's ridiculous. I was in the USAF. Fighters and B52 didn't cause comtrails

that wide. nt

[Ian David]

8. How do you know how wide it is? Do you know how far away the chopper was...

... and how tightly zoomed-in the camera is?

No.

[Windy]

5. It was huge..and did you notice the chinook helicopter in the video?

It was very very close to the contrail and whatever was causing it. Someone knows what it was...

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/mystery-missile-video-caught-california-coast-monday-night-2725975.html

at about 12 seconds

[eilen]

7. uhhhh.... weather balloon.... contrail... we got it covered

you UFO freaks.

[Ian David]

9. Zoom lenses compress the distances between objects.

That's why when you watch a baseball game on TV, it sometimes looks like the pitcher's mound is right next to home plate.