Pentagon: Not our screaming came across the sky
Mark Woollams
woollams812 at yahoo.com
Tue Nov 9 16:40:28 CST 2010
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/11/a-screaming-comes-across-the-sky.html
Los Angeles got Pynchonian on Monday when an unidentified "missile" was
launched from somewhere west of Los Angeles. Video of the event shows a bright
contrail zooming across the sky. Our sibling blog L.A. Now reports:
A KCBS news helicopter spotted what appeared to be a missile traveling through
the sky northwest of Catalina Island, about 35 miles west of Los Angeles....
>Officials with the Defense Department, the Navy and the Air Force said they
>did not have any details on the object or its launch site. Pentagon officials
>said that initial indications were that the military was not involved.
>"We are aware of the unexplained contrail reported off the coast of Southern
>California yesterday evening," according to a statement Tuesday from the North
>American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S. Northern Command, which
>operates the U.S. and Canadian missile warning system. "At this time, we are
>unable to provide specific details but we are working to determine the exact
>nature of this event.
Or as Thomas Pynchon wrote in "Gravity's Rainbow": A screaming comes across
the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.
-- Carolyn Kellogg
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