Pentagon can't explain 'missile' off California - REALLY??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME ?

There's a new commercial showing people fooling around with there phones at the worst possible moments...obsessed by the small screens while they ignore the rest of their lives with another person saying to them incredulously, " REALLY?" - It's a take off on the Saturday Night Live skit with Amy Poehler & Seth Mayers screaming " Really??" after reading an incredulous news story and trying to figure out how things got so stupid, so fast.

I had one of those moments when I read the enclosed story - " Pentagon can't explain 'missile' off California" - REALLY?? Like maybe it is one of the other countries that we should be worried about shooting it from a submarine by accident or in defiance of our defenses to show us they can...Ya know??

" "Nobody within the Department of Defense that we've reached out to has been able to explain what this contrail is, where it came from," Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said. "So far, we've come up empty with any explanation."

REALLY?? Like don't we pay you to make sure you KNOW what's going on off our coast at all times??

I tell ya, you can't make this SHITE up and if you did, people would not believe you or look at you and say, " REALLY??"


Pentagon can't explain 'missile' off California
By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press –

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon Tuesday said it was trying to determine if a missile was launched Monday off the coast of Southern California and who might have launched it.

Spokesmen for the Navy, Air Force, Defense Department and North American Aerospace Defense Command said they were looking into a video posted on the CBS News website that appears to show a rocket or some other object shooting up into the sky and leaving a large contrail over the Pacific Ocean.

The video was shot by a KCBS helicopter, the station said Tuesday.

"Nobody within the Department of Defense that we've reached out to has been able to explain what this contrail is, where it came from," Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said. "So far, we've come up empty with any explanation."

Lapan said officials are talking to the Air Force, Navy and NORAD as well as civilian authorities who control and monitor air space.

"Right now, all indications are that there was not (Department of Defense) involvement in this," Lapan said, adding that some object might have been launched by a private company.

Officials had no information to make them suspect that the action was taken by any U.S. adversary.
"At this point, until we know more information about what it may have been, there is not alarm," Lapan said. "But that could change depending on what we find out."