Missile-type object remains unidentified... to the public

About 5:15 last evening, a KCBS camera captured video of an apparent missile launch in the Pacific north and west of Catalina Island. It doesn't appear to have come from Vandenberg Air Force Base up the coast from Santa Barbara or from Point Mugu Naval Air Station, the usual sources of our missile and rocket sightings. So far, the Navy and the military aren't acknowledging it was one of theirs, and one Pentagon spokesman speculated it was privately owned. Neither is the U.S. voicing publicly any national security concern; the North American Aerospace Defense Command and the U.S. Northern Command said definitively it wasn't a foreign military operation. Nobody has said it wasn't a Navy submarine missile launch, or some other classified operation that can't or won't be acknowledged. So you do the math.

KCBS, L.A. Times blog