SpaceX Launch from California October 7, 2018: Public Misinterpretations – An Archival Resource for Further Analysis REVIEW DRAFT 3 November 30, 2018 [email protected] www.jamesoberg.com 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 1 “WE SEEN SOMETHING IN THE SKY” UPWARDS OF A THOUSAND VIDEOS POSTED ON YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA,OFTEN EXPESSING AWE AT SEEING THE REAL LAUNCHING BUT ALSO MANY EXPRESSIONS OF CONTEMPT, FEAR AND HATRED OF THOSE TRYING TO EXPLAIN IT ACCURATELY https://youtu.be/2g5UW1nHpGQ 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 2 THIS REPORT INTENDS TO….. • SAMPLE THE OUTPOURINGS OF PUBLIC REACTIONS TO THE UNUSUAL VISUAL FEATURES OF THE SPACEX LAUNCH/RECOVERY ON OCT 7, 2018 • COMPARE THEM TO PREVIOUS MISINTERPRETATIONS OF LAUNCHES • IDENTIFY ANY CHANGES IN TYPICAL EXPRESSED ASSESSMENTS • IDENTIFY WIDESPREAD PUBLIC MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF FUNDAMENTAL FEATURES OF SPACE FLIGHT THAT REQUIRE ENERGETIC REMEDIATION • REVISIT THE TYPES OF ‘NORMAL MISPERCEPTIONS’ OF SUCH BIZARRE APPARITIONS AND EVALUATE ANY SUBTLE SHIFTS • ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO OBSERVE AND REPORT ANOMALISTIC SIGHTINGS IN A MUCH MORE USEFUL FORM FOR STUDY • ENCOURAGE ALL INVESTIGATORS TO MORE PROFOUNDLY TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE RANGE OF NORMAL WITNESS MISPERCEPTIONS • PROVIDE AN ACCESSIBLE ARCHIVED SAMPLING OF COMMENTS FOR FOLLOW-ON SOCIOLOGICAL, PYCHOLOGICAL, EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 3 SAMPLE OF TYPICAL Falcon 9 launches SAOCOM 1A COMMENTS ON https://youtu.be/zw4X8p5zVZE [247,000 views] YOUTUBE VIDEOS Robert Staton == I was there at VAFB. Best show I ever saw. Wam Hacks == Beautiful. So glad I witnessed this historical event with my own eyes Scrotor == I'll never cease to be amazed at the rocket stage landing. So cool. Jaime Franco == I drove to Lompoc just to watch this event. It was spectacular. I will never forget it. Kelly Fishbeck == Absolutely epic! I will never, ever get tired of seeing this... Trevor Stull == i live about 100 miles away from the launch and i havent seen anything like that in my life the exhaust stretched across the entire sky and if you didn't know it was a rocket you would definitely assume it was aliens a rainbow Fishy == A majority of us Californians thought it was a ufo again haha lucky irvin == at 4:43 gawd i love seeing how well that cold gas RCS works 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 4 https://youtu.be/zw4X8p5zVZE p. 2 • Blanked] Scarf == My friend told me about this and she was freaking out, she saw it a little closer to her, but she notice it was brighting more and then she said it poofed, like really think, something is up there, a little shadow, i can halfway see a circle like shadow on top of that light, im not even joking tho • Whootini== It appeared out of nowhere then when bye bye. I think there is truly something out there. I feel like there not rockets people just say that. But something very extraordinary • estevun == What if it’s a cover up? • whootini == Probably we have alot of mysterious things on this earth and up in space of course it probbaly was a cover up so people dont freak out • Natalie Gonzalez == I see it too but it’s way bigger from where I’m at. 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 5 UFO? No! Just another Space X launch • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gF1vFLydp0 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 6 Comments 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gF1vFLydp0 • Daniel Corona == Probably im going to sound like a fkn ignorant i dont want to be conspiranoic either, i understand that they claim this is caused for a rocket launch... but why if we had been involved in rocket launches since the 60's and even in the 90's the rocket launches became something usual we didnt had a lot documentation of this phenoms on the atmosphere like these ones recently, i meant i could be so ignorant but i dont remember to see this kind of phonomens in 90's at least in all the reports just come from the space X always or from launches since a couple years ago,... Even if you look at in google for the same news in 90's there isnt any information about this kind of lights or clouds burning by hours in the sky?... • Couch gaming news == Exactly i first one im seeing and looks nothing like any rockets ive seen • q n == It is probably one of ours because it is too low and acts like a helicopter pilot because he’s low and looks like he is searching for someone or something. 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 7 Comments 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gF1vFLydp0 • victrola13 == All I can say is that there is more that we do NOT know, than what we actually DO. Although everyone and their cat will tell you that they know, but they do not. This could be "one of ours." Or, it could be Project Blue Beam. It could be we are now more openly being visited. It could be a dm hologram! Things down here are a mess. Let's face it. We are lawless. • Dog Serious == That is not a space x launch. It's some type of technology you're trying to cover up. Lithium, chemicaltrails being heated and microwave manipulated by ground based emitters. We know they're engaged in weather warfare against us all. Now they've got high powered lazers that they've been starting wild fires with and burning peoples homes down with. • AJ Khan == Hahaha, adding fuel to conspiracies...... 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 8 THIS REPORT SUPPLEMENTS THIS STUDY OF THE NOV 7, 2015 LAUNCH http://satobs.org/seesat_ref/misc/151107-cali_slbm_witness_analysis.pdf 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 9 THIS REPORT IS A COMPANION TO TWO OTHER REPORTS ON THE OCT 7, 2018 EVENT • 1 Overview of actual mission and imagery of it, with analysis of imagery for extracting significant performance insights of vehicle based on dynamics of various plumes produced throughout ascent • 2 Supplemental report on ground observations of Falcon9 second stage deorbit burn over the North Sea on Oct 8, 2018 shortly before local dawn, observed along ocean littoral from Iceland to England to Belgium to Netherlands to Germany to Finland [Norway clouded in], with analysis of burn sequence without benefit of SpaceX public disclosure of any information [‘Moscow Rules’]. 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 10 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 11 COMMON PUBLIC MISUNDERSTANDINGS THAT HINDER ACCEPTANCE OF EXPLANATION • ROCKETS ARE NOT FLOWN OVER POPULATED AREA • THE EVENT WAS NOT ANNOUNCED IN ADVANCE • ROCKETS SHOULD GIVE OFF SOUND OR SONIC BOOM • ROCKETS SHOULD GO STRAIGHT UP • THIS OBJECT WAS OBSERVED DIVING DOWN INTO OCEAN • OBJECT HAD ‘GLOWING’ OR INTERNALLY LUMINESCENT CLOUDS • ROCKETS ALWAYS STREAK THROUGH THE SKY • COINCIDENTAL EVENTS [SUCH AS OTHER AIRCRAFT] CONNECTED • SPECULATIONS ON MOTIVATIONS OF INTELLIGENCE BEHIND OBJECTS • CLOUDS, SPIRALS, PLUMES HAVE ONLY APPEARED IN RECENT YEARS 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 12 ASCENT PATH OF ROCKET https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg- d11fc1c762d8e14898095f8d6870bbcc 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 13 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 14 MOST DYNAMCALLY-COMPLEX STAGING SEQUENCE EVER OVER CALIFORNIA – FIRST STAGE TURNS AROUND, REIGNITES TO REVERSE COURSE; SECOND STAGE CONTINUES INTO ORBIT; BOTH FAIRINGS SEPARATE AND STEER TOWARD RECOVERY ZONE DOWNRANGE 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 15 BEFORE READING THESE COMMENTS…. AN ANALYST MUST BECOME AWARE OF: • THE MOST COMMON MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF SPACEFLIGHT • THE MOST COMMON MISPERCEPTIONS OF THIS EVENT • THE MOST COMMON CULTURAL BACKGROUND EVENTS RELATED TO THIS TYPE OF REPORT • PRECURSOR ROCKET/MISSILE OBSERVATIONS 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 16 Sources of typical witness misperceptions • CONFUSION ABOUT HORIZONTAL FLIGHT PATH • INVALID ESTIMATION OF RANGE OF UNKNOWN-SIZED OBJECT • CONFUSION/GUESSING ABOUT SOURCE OF ILLUMINATION • VISUAL EXPECTATIONS BASED ON HIGHLY-PUBLICIZED PRECURSOR EVENTS • ‘EXPLANATIONS’ BASED ON HOLLYWOOD MOVIES • OVERESTIMATING SIGNIFICANCE OF COINCIDENCES • CONFIRMATION BIAS FOR PRE-EXISTING FRINGE SPECULATIONS • INTERPRETATIONS BASED ON ANALOGIES WITH ANOMALOUS EVENTS • INTUITION BASED ON IMAGINED MOTIVES OF OBJECT’S CONTROLLER • THE ‘GALILEO GIMMICK’ THAT DIVERGENT THINKERS ALWAYS TRIUMPH 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 17 WIKIPEDIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_phenomena • Twilight phenomenon is produced when exhaust particles from missile or rocket propellant left in the vapor trail of a launch vehicle condenses, freezes and then expands in the less dense upper atmosphere. The exhaust plume, which is suspended against a dark sky is then illuminated by reflective high altitude sunlight through dispersion, which produces a spectacular, colorful effect when seen at ground level. • The phenomenon typically occurs with launches that take place either 30 to 60 minutes before sunrise or after sunset when a booster rocket or missile rises out of the darkness and into a sunlit area, relative to an observer's perspective on the ground. Because rocket trails extend high into the stratosphere and mesosphere, they catch high altitude sunlight long after the sun has set on the ground. The small particles in the expanding exhaust plume or "cloud" diffract sunlight and produce the rose, blue, green and orange colors—much like a dispersive prism can be used to break light up into its constituent spectral colors (the colors of the rainbow) -- thereby making the twilight phenomenon all the more spectacular. • [more] 2018 Oct 07 MISSILE MISINTERPRETATIONS 18 WIKI [CONTINUED] • Some observers have wrongly assumed the missile or rocket creating the aerial spectacle must have malfunctioned or been destroyed while in flight. That belief stems from the appearance of the launch vehicle's contrail as it becomes twisted into knots by upper altitude air currents or wind shear. To date, no malfunctioning missile or rocket has been known to create the phenomenon. On the rare occasions when a missile or rocket does malfunction, it is destroyed by a Range Safety Officer before reaching the altitudes where twilight phenomenon occur.