{"id":21117,"date":"2010-11-09T14:51:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T18:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21117"},"modified":"2013-04-09T18:01:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T22:01:13","slug":"mystery-missile-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21117","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Missile Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/11\/09\/national\/main7036716.shtml\">This seems a bit odd&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(CBS)  A mysterious missile launch off the southern California coast was caught by CBS affiliate KCBS&#8217;s cameras Monday night, and officials are staying tight-lipped over the nature of the projectile. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Air Force and Navy are claiming it wasn&#8217;t them&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Navy spokesperson told KFMB it wasn&#8217;t their missile. He said there was no Navy activity reported in the area Monday evening. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday night, Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, launched a Delta II rocket, carrying an Italian satellite into orbit, but a sergeant at the base told KFMB there had been no launches since then<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Robert Ellsworth, former NATO embassador and former Deputy Sec. Def.  took a guess.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen asked, however, what he thought it might be, the former ambassador said it could possibly have been a missile test timed as a demonstration of American military might as President Obama tours Asia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I don&#8217;t know why this administration would want to flex any muscle while the POTUS is in India\/Indonesia&#8230;anyone else have a good guess?<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/uncinus.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/09\/4\/#more-4\">This guy<\/a> has an interesting take, check out the photos&#8230;and it&#8217;s not from Monday night&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consci.s3.amazonaws.com\/\/skitch\/Preview-20100119-154110.jpg\" alt=\"contrail\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This seems a bit odd&#8230; (CBS) A mysterious missile launch off the southern California coast was &hellip; <a title=\"Mystery Missile Launch\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21117\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mystery Missile Launch<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}