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his station on "Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning had leaned toward the missile theory" to explain the origin of the plume. News anchors continued to cover the event and, by the end of Tuesday, it had attracted international press attention, being described as a "mystery missile" or "vapor trail reminiscent of a missile launch."
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reports...of unusual sightings from pilots who were flying in the area on Monday afternoon." Eventually, on
November 10, about 30 hours after the contrail first gained press attention, a Pentagon spokesman stated “there is no evidence to suggest that this is anything else other than a condensation trail from an aircraft.”
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Angeles, California and somewhat north of Catalina Island. It was later characterized as a "large vertical column set against the bright orange sky at sunset" and was clearly visible from the Los Angeles area. Scott Diener, the news director at KCBS, stated that the experts interviewed by
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released a statement on
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launches in the area for the prior day. On
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spokesman Ian Gregor stated: "The FAA ran radar replays of a large area west of Los
Angeles based on media reports of the possible missile launch at approximately 5 p.m. (PT) on Monday. The radar replays did not reveal any fast moving, unidentified targets in that area...The FAA did not receive
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magazine ranked the incident as number two on its "Top 10 Oddball News
Stories" list for 2010, remarking how "within hours, the footage had been picked up by every major news network," and observing that "as quickly as the mystery missile arrived on the scene...it was set aside."
292:, has hosted a number of secret operations. The 2010 incident occurred not far from San Nicolas, leading some experts to speculate about a connection between the contrail and activity on the island. On Friday, November 5, 2010, several days prior to the contrail incident,
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satellite on
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reported on the briefing, describing how Rubin used "the
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205:. U.S. federal and military authorities were also criticized for giving a series of "inconclusive" answers about the event and allowing the issue, in the words of one commentator, to "fester for days" without a clear resolution.
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mainly to Asia, that we can do that." Ellsworth further said of the vapor trail: "It's spectacular...It takes people's breath away," and described the projectile as "a big missile." Doug Richardson, editor of
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Stelter, Brian; Broad, William J. (November 14, 2010).
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Martinez, Michael; Wian, Casey (November 10, 2010).
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1901:"The Mystery Missile that Wasn't"
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2073:"A Matter Of Perspective"
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448:Chief of Naval Operations
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