Airborne Mysteries, Part MXVII

[mckitterick]

Are aliens among us? Or is it just another - though extraordinary - military FUBAR? Note: US military officials still deny the vapor-trail was created by a missile. So what, then? A flaming orca headed to space? Dolphins going somewhere safer than Earth? ALIENS? Check it out, the "Mystery Missile" launched just off the coast of Los Angeles last night:

Which recalls last year's "Black Hole" over Norway:

...and don't forget the excitement stirred a couple of weeks ago by several former US military officers who testified at the National Press Club about UFOs disabling our nuclear deterrent systems in the 1960s. No, seriously!

Excitement! Adventure! Aliens among us! Or something....

Chris

Comments

[kimberlywade.livejournal.com]

Probably secret military operations. Am i a wet blanket?

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

That's what I expect - and how creepy-cool is that?

"Sir, perhaps we should wait until we're farther out to sea before launching our Death Star Mark I."

"Nonsense, Captain! Who'll notice a missile launch just miles from L.A.? They'll think it's just another airplane."

[kimberlywade.livejournal.com]

Ha, ha!

[stina-leicht.livejournal.com]

or yahoos saber-rattling. because there isn't enough paranoia at the moment. [rolls eyes]

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Let's just hope it was OUR yahoos doing the rattling. Because if another nation got that close and launched just to prove something to us... yikes.

'Course, if it turns out to have been ALIENS going back to Rudebeggah IV from their base on the ocean floor, I'll be so very happy. Sadly, that's the least likely scenario.

[stina-leicht.livejournal.com]

actually, that's what i meant. *our* yahoos. because if the russians were up to something they had to prove they could do it too. you know?

[fortyozspartan.livejournal.com]

They don't prove anything if we're arguing over what it was ;-)

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

"he whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret!"

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

What's this? A Russian "military expert" slamming the US military? YOU ASTONISH ME.

I don't expect my government to shrug and say, "Ya got me." I expect my government to look me straight in the eye and say, with a straight face, "It was just a weather balloon. Or possibly swamp gas." That's why I pay taxes.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

A Russian "military expert" slamming the US military?

I was equally astonished ;-D

Good stuff.

[tully01.livejournal.com]

They didn't want to spoil the thrill by saying it was just the contrail from US Air flight 808 viewed head-on at sunset.

I know, I know, I take all the fun out of alien invasions.

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

I would have also bought the spacefaring flaming orca theory. It's only a matter of time, really.