mysterious missile Attack On California

A mysterious missile California or an optical illusion That's a North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) is trying to solve -? And the blogosphere is hotly debated - after CBS News in Los Angeles issued what appeared to be a rocket launch from the Pacific Ocean, north of Santa Catalina Island, taken at dusk on Nov. 8.
The "mystery missiles" video, filmed from a helicopter operated by local CBS affiliate KCBS, shows what appears to be a feather engine exhaust arc rises in the sky west of Los Angeles. Speculation about his birth ranges from a passenger plane, whose wake is giving the illusion of the rocket or missile itself.
The only thing clear about the event is that going to public agencies with jurisdiction over throws or fingers on the buttons to launch point - the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Defence - said in effect, "not us."
Despite the official uncertainty behind the contrail, the NORAD and U.S. Northern Command, which oversees the defense of the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii, issued a statement to reassure countries that the event poses no threat.
"We can confirm that there is a threat to our nation, and it appears that this was not a launch by a foreign army," they said. "We will provide more information when available."
Coastal southern California is no stranger to rocket launches. U.S. Air Force commercial and military rocket launchers north of Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara, NASA occasionally sounding rockets launched from San Nicolas Island, about 80 miles west of Los Angeles. Nor is it surprising to spectacular sunsets and strange aircraft contrails.
In contrailscience.com, a private pilot based in Santa Monica, which operates the event has published several trails of extinction are similar to the wake of the CBS news crew recorded.
David Wright, co-director of Global Security Program Union of Concerned Scientists in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said that his initial speculation about what happened leaned toward explaining rocket launch, taking into account the NASA launched from San Nicolas Island .
The report suggested that CBS was going boom some 35 miles offshore, but Dr. Wright added that the lighting at night and humidity might have conspired to launch a trail appear larger and closer it really is.
But after seeing the pictures on contrailscience.com, he adds, is reconsidering a stream of air as an explanation - one that tends to exclude from the outset.