Trident missile launch over California - November 7, 2015

World War III imminent?

"Media in California confirmed that the light came from an unarmed Trident missile fired from the USS Kentucky navy submarine," reports the BBC. While they call the missile "unarmed," they fail to mention that the Trident missile normally carries a thermonuclear warhead. There's also no way for the media to know whether this missile was really unarmed or not, as the sole source on that question is the U.S. Navy itself.

http://www.naturalnews.com/051884_Trident_missile_launch_covert_war_with_China_first_strike_on_America.html

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-secrecy-missile-launch-la-20151109-story.html

The need for secrecy Saturday was all the more important given the type of weapon the Navy was testing, according to Thompson.

The Trident II (D5) missile is a centerpiece of the U.S. military’s ability to deter a nuclear attack, and an ongoing effort to modernize the weapon is a top priority, he said.

doesn't the kind of deterrence we're talking about here rely on your opponent knowing what your capabilities are

Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?

Ambassador de Sadesky: It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.

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sad that i missed this. the photos looked pretty cool.

doesn't the kind of deterrence we're talking about here rely on your opponent knowing what your capabilities are

Knowing that they exist, yes; knowing concentrated details about how they fly, what signals they emit throughout the spectrum, etc., no.

I mean apparently this test flight already produced one valuable finding - they sure are bright when you set one off

my friend saw it and was super freaked out. all the infowars and 911 truther ppl on fb are in hog heaven atm

saber rattling with china and russia very very scary

well ... missile tests aren't that uncommon in southern california, we have one of these "strangely colored lights in the sky concern residents!" occurrences every year, or maybe even more often

There's also no way for the media to know whether this missile was really unarmed or not,

also LOL WTF does this even mean. of course it was unarmed, you don't just shoot off a live thermonuclear warhead in a test.

that is a very good pt

isn't that exactly what they would want you to think? remember, "official" explanations are almost always cover stories

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/051884_Trident_missile_launch_covert_war_with_China_first_strike_on_America.html#ixzz3r2DiiHhS

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

i trust this man on matters of import.

This is not fiction.

You don't just shoot off a live thermonuclear warhead OFF THE COAST OF ONE OF THE BIGGEST CITIES IN THE US in a test.

There's also no way for the media to know whether this missile was really unarmed or not, as the sole source on that question is the U.S. Navy itself.

I'm no rocket scientist but I think there might have been some independently verifiable evidence of this, on behalf of it being a LIVE NUCLEAR WARHEAD.

Then again we are talking about a website, apparently linked to with a straight face, that describes itself as "truth news".

The second most popular headline on that website:

Cannabis oil cures terminal cancer in 3-year-old after pharmaceutical drugs fail miserably

wow chilling

http://www.naturalnews.com/gallery/articles/China-power-projections-chart2.jpg

Wow,it didn't take long for the WSJ under Murdoch to lose any and all credibility it had, did it?

haha that graph is fantastic
has that been used in a standardized test yet

Was this on billy corgan's Facebook or something

Cannabis oil cures terminal cancer in 3-year-old after pharmaceutical drugs fail miserably

I don't smoke pot often, but on Saturday night I was camping in a very isolated spot on the top of a mountain in the Anza-Borrego desert outside San Diego and had just finished doing exactly that when my buddy and I look up and happen to see a brand new moon in the sky, brighter than any other star, and it was flickering. "Uhh, how long has that been there?" I asked. Then we sat there and holy-shitted at it as it abruptly dialed down the intensity and started expanding into a ball of blueish haze that just kept swelling in size. I thought I could see faint streaks in the haze that suggested we were looking at the tail end of a rifling, diffused comet. Kind of a blurry nautilus shape. After twenty minutes or so it had dissolved.

When we got back to the trailhead at the bottom of the mountain bright and early the next morning, there was a van full of UCSD students piling out and getting ready to hike up. They'd been camping nearby the night before too and were super excited to talk to us about seeing it.

another one: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-second-missile-launch-pentagon-20151109-story.html

The submarine missile test came late Saturday after Defense Secretary Ashton Carter addressed a defense forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley about the U.S. “adapting our operational posture and contingency plans” to deter Russia’s “aggression.”

“We do not seek a cold, let alone a hot, war with Russia,” he said to the forum. “We do not seek to make Russia an enemy. But make no mistake; the United States will defend our interests, our allies, the principled international order, and the positive future it affords us all.”

Was this on billy organ's Facebook or something

― brim stead, Monday, November 9, 2015 5:31 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no, but i did find it scrolling thru fb last night after my girlfriend and i were woken up by someone being up or raped last night. couldn't fall back asleep and after reading about WWIII being imminent i was up til 6am. i know the site is tinfoil hat, but that doesn't change the fact that the launch was a strategic display for russia and pos. china

Wait, what?

lol at that scam chart. i can only assume the accompanying text very calmly and explicitly draws the audience's attention to the difference between a carrier strike group and an entire navy. right....?

can't believe our navy launched a missile from one of 0 to 2 submarines

should be a column for "U.S. Mighty Ducks Flying V"

sure, obama scored an easy laugh with his crack about "horses and bayonets." but what he didn't tell you is that, to save a few bucks, all nineteen of our aircraft carriers have been combined into one single ball of metal that promptly sank to the bottom of the ocean.

i know if i was chinese i'd be in a rush to decimate our largest trading partner

there's something really alarming about this news item, simply because it's sobering to remember that there might actually be a need for a nuclear-attack-deterring technology.

brings me back to my 1980s childhood, not in a good way.

For all of these technologies the program lifecycle includes exercises and testing because hey, how else do we know it works in the real world with real sailors on real boats, etc? Actual saber-rattling would be running a test somewhere off of Hawaii, not LA.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/11/09/california-missile-test-social-media-nightmare-or-exactly-what-the-navy-wanted/

Why test-fire a missile within sight of the nation’s second-largest city, terrifying some and leading thousands more to flood Twitter and Facebook with wild speculation about the glowing craft?

Did the Navy think the test would go largely unnoticed by the public? Did officials underestimate social media’s ability to turn a routine event into front-page fodder?

Or was that the plan all along, using the inevitable influence of social media to flex America’s military might for observers in Beijing and Moscow?

makes you think

Did the Navy think the test would go largely unnoticed by the public? Did officials underestimate social media’s ability to turn a routine event into front-page fodder?

Double Yup

Or was that the plan all along, using the inevitable influence of social media to flex America’s military might for observers in Beijing and Moscow?

*spit take*

xpost: It's either that or to quiet all the people bitching that Obama isn't "going after ISIS" and that he's making the country "unsafe."

See, look how safe and protected we are with our bright shiny missiles.

maybe ISIS was just off the coast of California!!

I'm trying to imagine the admiral and his staff sitting there deciding exactly when to do this being like "well, the fellas at TWEETCOM say this'll really moisten some trousers in Moscow and Beijing if we just set it off while all the kids are clubbing in LA - luckily that coincides with the scheduled live fire exercise action we have to complete by December!"

maybe ISIS was just off the coast of California!!

Come, my friend. Let me show you a little thing called Fox News.

i'm pretty sure the missile light spelled "SEX" like the swirling dust cloud in Disney's the Lion King

I mean on one hand I totally get that there are definitely thousands of people involved in a test like this, and there are political things that go on, and many tests do create opportunities for show business, but the show business is painfully staged and planned and executed with the utmost of control, not like this.

Or was that the plan all along, using the inevitable influence of social media to flex America’s military might for observers in Beijing and Moscow?

hard to believe
tbh embarrassing/concerning if that was the case--
that at this time u.s. has to "flex its muscles"

true there is all sorts of weird messaging going on lately re south china sea
and yeah, there's putin doing his thing

but if it's show business i would think it's more matter of politics domestic than real message to moscow/ beijing

but tomboto otm i think
but who knows

the dudes that flex the most are the ones that work out all the time and want ppl to focus on their pecs and not their sparkling intellects tho

thread of getting sw0le

my girlfriend and i were woken up by someone being up or raped last night.

...beg pardon?

Yeah, I read that and imagined a series of terrifying memes.

"UP? OR RAPED?"

Then I found infinity things better to do

13min HD video of the Trident Launch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc0_wZat4nI

Explainer gallery details what's going on: http://imgur.com/gallery/ylKYd/

Before Vandenberg AFB got a public relations officer that knew how to reach out to missile trainspotters we would have these reports all the time in LA. The Navy stays quiet.

*beaten up

I miss all the sonic booms from spyplanes etc flying into vandenberg back in the day

I got my first sonic boom a year or two ago! We occasionally get them from Patuxent Naval Air Station, but I've only experienced it once, at about 7:30 on a Sunday morning. Me and a bunch of other people on my street all coming out of our houses in our pajamas like "what the hell was that?"

Another test off of San Nicolas Island yesterday.

http://missiledefenseadvocacy.org/alert/five-minutes-this-morning-in-california/

http://www.lamonitor.com/content/army-launch-missile-thursday-white-sands

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — An early morning missile test over a remote part of New Mexico is expected to produce a contrail that will be visible across the Southwest on Thursday, and authorities says they're preparing for a flood of phone calls and emails from curious onlookers.

The unarmed Juno target missile will be launched between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. MST from an old military depot in western New Mexico. The destination is White Sands Missile Range, some 215 miles away.

On its way to White Sands, the missile will drop a booster into a safety zone on private and national forest land north of Datil, New Mexico. Roadblocks have been set up in the area.

A similar launch in 2012 created a buzz when reports flooded in about a colorful contrail that was visible from southern Colorado west to Salt Lake City, Phoenix and Las Vegas.

This time, officials are sharing information about the launch with communities as far away as Palm Springs, California.

It's the contrail that causes the commotion.

"It's hard to describe, but it's very unusual so that's why we get the calls," White Sands spokeswoman Cammy Montoya said Wednesday. "People want to know: What happened, is it a UFO, what's going on?"