Arguments about origins will devolve into a quibble about effective range, maybe.

World Net Daily this evening quotes the former assistant director of operations at NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain complex, who says the November 8 contrails off the coast of California did not come from a jet but rather, “the exhaust and the billowing plume emanated from a single source nozzle of a missile, probably made in China.”

Indeed, the Federal Aviation Administration documents that there were no aircraft flying in the area at that time, the night of Nov. 8.

“The question that still must be answered is why NORAD’s muted response was simply that North America was not threatened, and later our government approved the lame excuse that the picture recorded was simply an aircraft leaving a contrail,” said retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Jim Cash.

Karen, is the term I’m looking for “feckless” or “gormless”?