Pentagon: Not our screaming came across the sky

[Mark Kohut]

Ms. Kellogg is a deep Pynchon fan. She has the muted trumpet as a tattoo, she 
has written. 




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From: Mark Woollams <woollams812 at yahoo.com>
To: Pynchon List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, November 9, 2010 5:40:28 PM
Subject: Pentagon: Not our screaming came across the sky

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