Video: Mysterious Missile Launches Off Coast Of Southern California, Pentegon Clueless

What the heck was that?:

From CBS News via drudge: Pentagon Can't Explain "Missile" off California

The Pentagon Tuesday said it was trying to determine if a missile was launched Monday off the coast of Southern California and who might have launched it.

Spokesmen for the Navy, Air Force, Defense Department and North American Aerospace Defense Command said they were looking into a video posted on the CBS News website that appears to show a rocket or some other object shooting up into the sky and leaving a large contrail over the Pacific Ocean.

The video was shot by a CBS affiliate KCBS' helicopter, the station said Tuesday.

"Nobody within the Department of Defense that we've reached out to has been able to explain what this contrail is, where it came from," Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan said. "So far, we've come up empty with any explanation."

..."At this point, until we know more information about what it may have been, there is not alarm," Lapan said. "But that could change depending on what we find out."

In other words, they really are clueless. We're in the best of hands folks!

UPDATE: If the above video gets taken down, here's another: