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If someone did launch a missile, and it were destroyed with a secret weapons system, this is precisely the timeline (alert, not a drill - passage of 30+ mins to write a cover story about shift change, “oh sorry false alarm”) and news articles I would expect to see.

The only thing we know is that we won’t ever receive the truth.

Can you imagine how much worse it would be if the story were “US anti-missile defense destroys weapon headed for Hawaii”?

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The likelihood of this being the case seems so close to nil. For one, the coverup required would involve thousands of military and non-military personnel. But secondly, if we really did destroy an incoming warhead, well, that would constitute an attack — the attack — and I can’t fathom the US military not counter-attacking.

So no, I don’t think you have to worry about that. Just a fat fingering, no more.

> For one, the coverup required would involve thousands of military and non-military personnel.

Over a million people have a TS clearance.

As for not fathoming the military counterattacking—that is an excellent motive for keeping such an event secret.

South Korea and Japan routinely are reporting about North Korean missile strikes independently of the US military. So this seems extremely unlikely.

> The only thing we know is that we won’t ever receive the truth.

How do you know? If you never get the true.

> Can you imagine how much worse it would be if the story were “US anti-missile defense destroys weapon headed for Hawaii”?

For the Trump administration? It will have been a blessing. Forget about porn stars, Russia, tax reform for the rich, ... just talk about war.

What if this site is actually just a government tool to monitor "woke" people, and you're one of the handful of users that isn't a bot or a shill...

Who else would likely see the missile besides U.S. military? That's an interesting idea, even if at first blush very unlikely.

Yeah, I don’t think there was a missile. Or, at least, there probably wasn’t. This messaging and timeline is just strangely congruent to what I would expect if there were.

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