Missile/Plane/UFO thingy over LA - 'Nothing to see here, move along now' say the experts - So, why do I feel scared?

You’ve probably noticed the deluge of boffins on TV over the past few days telling us that there was absolutely nothing mysterious about that thing that looked an awful lot like a missile flying over Los Angeles on Monday . No, apparently it wasn't anything of the sort, and all that video showed was nothing more than the vapor of a run of the mill old airplane...Really!

I mean, who are you gonna believe? the cable news pundits or your lying eyes?

Well, I'd like to think that normally my conspiratorial mindset would’ve found something ever-so-slightly fishy about all of it, but fortunately I don't have to wonder whether it was a airplane or not, because I know that it wasn’t, because I fucking saw it.

Yup! Jo and I saw the fucking thing and it definitely was not an airplane.

We were taking our usual neighborhood stroll at around 8.40pm on Monday night when Jo said ‘look!’ she didn’t have to point because directly to the south of us (we were on Hobart Ave walking south between James M Wood and San Mareno) coming from the west was what looked like a rocket.

We only watched it for a second or so, but it was enough to give us the impression that it was a missile of some sort. It was on a sharp downward trajectory coming from the west (we were looking south) and it was fast, like a shooting star, but far closer, bigger and lower. All we could see of it was the burning exhaust coming from a single outlet at its rear, and as it neared the ground the burning stopped, which made it invisible to us against the night sky. It was as if an engine had been turned off, or the fuel had burned out (like a firework does), and as soon as the burning stopped we expected it to hit the ground and we instinctively braced ourselves for what we believed was going to be an impact explosion, but nothing happened. There was no explosion or any sign of burning on the ground in the distance.

It was really weird and as we walked home a little shaken we met a neighbor and joked with him that we’d just seen a UFO.

I know I’m already in danger of being accused of being a nut, but before I go on I should point out that we live in Koreatown, which is pretty much smack bang in the middle of LA, and we’re well used to seeing planes circling at night, but this:
· Had no lights other than a single burning exhaust, and generally the planes flying over our heads don’t have burning exhaust coming from a single engine at the back of it.
· Was traveling significantly faster than a plane waiting to land.
· Was coming virtually straight down.

In short our sighting was no airplane, and we were obviously keen to find out what the thing was, but we couldn’t find any reference to it on the news that evening. The following morning (yesterday/Tuesday) was a different story.

Coverage of the ‘mysterious event over Los Angeles’ was everywhere. At first we were relieved as other people had obviously seen the thing too, so we weren’t going crazy, but any hope that we’d be offered some rational explanation soon evaporated as ‘expert’ after expert across the networks told the unconvincing story that it was an airplane.

All the networks were showing the same video (below), which had been at dusk taken somewhere to the west of us. They say their video was taken at 8.35pm and we saw the thing at around 8.40pm east of where they had filmed it. If this was the same object then we’d seen it against the night sky minutes later. What’s really disturbing is that the timing and trajectory of the thing on the video fits perfectly with our sighting and what we saw didn’t look, or behave anything like a plane. Also, assuming it remained on the same trajectory we saw it coming down on it must’ve crashed somewhere south of central LA.

For the last three days we’ve become more troubled by the response as we watch commentator after commentator get it wrong. Rachael Maddow jokingly surmised on her show that it couldn’t possibly have been a missile because if it were then all of LA would’ve seen it, and consequently been freaked out until they found out why it had been fired. Well, although I can’t speak for the rest of the population Jo and I did see something over Los Angeles on Monday night, and we believed it to be a missile, and it was coming down, not going up, and yes Rachael my partner and I were, and remain more than a tad concerned by what we saw.

Perhaps worst of all was reading a posting on the MSNBC website yesterday (Wednesday) titled ‘Pentagon solve LA mystery’. I clicked on the story fully expecting to read that it had all been the fault of some brilliant if not slightly disturbed amateur scientist, but instead only got the Pentagon’s assurance that they were now ‘sure’ it was an airplane.

I mean even if I hadn’t seen the fucking thing myself I’d have been worried by the press release because it’s weak. I mean seriously is being ‘sure it was a plane’ the best the Pentagon can do? Just because more experts had told them so, well fuck me sideways with a fish fork! I mean more experts were ‘sure’….WTF!

If it were a plane the Pentagon would be able to do a LOT better than just making an unsupported claim that they were ‘sure’, they would’ve ‘confirmed’ it. You know! With the fucking license number, time of departure and destination, and a fucking interview with the pilot who’d apologise to everyone for freaking them out, and admitting to flying directly up on a squiggly line and then descending at full speed on a fucking 80 degree angle towards South Central LA before pulling out of the ditch just in time, and all for the fuck of it….Oh yeah! and he’d been flying a special kind of plane that traveled ten times faster than other planes and it used a single rocket at the back of it!

They would’ve prepared simulations of the route and shown how the ‘optical illusion’ had been caused. But, they didn’t and the reason they didn’t is because IT WASN’T A FUCKING PLANE.

So, what the fuck was it then?