By Matt Hardigree What Mystery Missile Launched Off California's Coast Yesterday? Someone launched a missile off the southern California coast Monday night, but neither the Pentagon nor the Navy will claim credit for the rocket launch. So what is it? Where was it going? Video of the mystery missile below. Although Friday saw a Delta rocket launch near LA carrying a satellite into space, apparently, this is not connected. Here's some wild speculation from former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and former Deputy Sec. of Defense Robert Ellsworth: When asked, however, what he thought it might be, the former ambassador said it could possibly have been a missile test timed as a demonstration of American military might as President Obama tours Asia. "It could be a test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile from a submarine … to demonstrate, mainly to Asia, that we can do that," speculated Ellsworth. Ellsworth said such tests were carried out in the Atlantic to demonstrate America's power to the Soviets, when there was a Soviet Union, but he doesn't believe an ICBM has previously been tested by the U.S. over the Pacific. What else could it be? Share this:

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