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right it has been days since a

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mysterious missile like vapor trail was

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recorded off California's coast and the

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federal government still can't provide a

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concrete answer as to what it is now the

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Pentagon says that they are satisfied it

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was quote likely caused by an aircraft

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and while we wait for the truth the

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number of other theories are making the

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rounds and here to submit just a few are

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retired US Air Force Lieutenant General

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Tom McInerney is with US national

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security more correspondents for the

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Washington Examiner Sarah Carter an

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investigative journalist Richard

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miniature right in conventional wisdom

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general McInerney is that right this is

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an airplane I am willing to listen to

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that but don't we need to know what

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aircraft it was where it was flying

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where it took off one time why can't we

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get a definitive answer and you agree

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with that assertion well first of all I

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do not agree with the assertion Sean and

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your question is we should get a

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definitive answer you're absolutely

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correct look this is not an airplane

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because of the plume and the way you see

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that plume airplanes do not con at sea

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level or 5,000 feet like that I spent 35

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years flying fighters and I never saw an

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airplane con like that that is a missile

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it's launched from a submarine and that

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you can see it go through a correction

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course and then it gets a very smooth

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trajectory meaning that the guidance

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system is now kicked in it's going at

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about a 45 degrees away from you that's

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why you're not seeing a lot of vertical

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velocity general are you a hundred

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percent certain Sean I've watched that

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film ten times I've watched 15 other

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Trident films sm-3 serve standard

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missile-3 s and T Land launches I am

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absolutely certain that that is not an

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aircraft Sara we're told this is an

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optical illusion that it's you really

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got to see it in its context that

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everyone seemed to buy into the

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conventional wisdom now I listen to

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general McInerney was a tremendous

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amount of background and experience he

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says something very different your

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reaction well you know III haven't just

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heard it from the general I've been

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hearing this from others

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horses as well and and I'm also hearing

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the other side I'm not an expert here on

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aircraft and trajectories I think the

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general is much more an expert than I

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he's an aviator and and he understands

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aircraft and he understands missile

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systems

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I contacted NORAD today I spoke with

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officials at NORAD and the one thing

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they did tell me is that it was not a

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missile but they did not give any other

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explanation as to what this could be and

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so it leaves it leaves me to wonder if

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our Defense Department and our and our

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folks at NORAD have no idea for the last

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day and a half what this is so a

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speculation is out there mr. Medin was

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very clear that it was not of a foreign

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launched product that they had been not

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been observing any launches from any

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universe an airplane Richard you know I

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don't know it's but could possibly be an

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airplane it could be a toy rocket

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launched as a test

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I mean we're gonna throw it that looks

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like a toy rocket to you well we don't

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have anything to look at the scale and

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if you do if you look at a terror cell

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well some of those toys are pretty

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sophisticated Sean but if you were a

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terror cell you want Christmas but that

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is no toy rocket I mean it's either an

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airplane or it's a missile too in my

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mind and the IR I got to be honest this

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there's something look I'm willing to

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accept that there are optical illusions

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I'm willing to accept that this might be

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something else this might have been an

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aircraft I'm not a conspiracy theorist

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well in general makanan airy here with

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with his background his expertise him

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being a pilot and his definitive answer

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that this is a missile I'm I'm kind of

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nervous that maybe my government is

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covering something up here look I can't

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imagine that this is a foreign submarine

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launching a missile off the coast of the

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United States that look like an airplane

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to you well it could be an airplane but

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I mean it also could be could be an

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airplane I totally agree a bunch of kids

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on a boat with a you know pranking

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launching something richer or it could

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be an experimental this is not a roman

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candle for crying out this is not a

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silver jet this this thing is what did

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you see just just six months ago

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in orbit well jet no here's the date

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here's the if in fact this is a missile