Really, guys, settle down.
If the Gov were dumb enough to send something classified off near where hundreds of folks live, especially with the inherent danger of sideline damage, they really aren't worried about who could see it.
I'm anxious to find out what this really is, if we ever find out.
To think that Greg has attracted attention because of the weather web cam or security camera, then our military has a lot to worry about. You can't be at fault for taking pix from either public or your own property. The only reason they'd be worried if there were something nefarious going on, and they were going to do it again. A simpler thing would be to turn off all the power in the area just before the next launch.
Dale,
You sure can get in hot water just innocently snapping pictures of a Navy base.
I was intercepted while cruising the Corpus Christi channel in front of (the former) Naval Station Ingleside *.
As I had glanced towards the Naval Base while traversing the wide entrance, I noticed large signs with 'prohibited activities' posted, but thought little of it.
A passenger (niece) on my powerboat sitting forward, unbeknownst to me, began snapping pictures; as I was busy navigating the transition from southbound in the GICW channel to westbound in the CC channel.
As we passed across the large entrance to the Ingleside Mine Sweeper Base, the pier side security detail noticed this picture taking (from about a mile away). They tried to hail me on the VHF, which I couldn't hear over the engine noise, and then dispatched an armed patrol boat to intercept. This boat swung in off my starboard quarter and hailed me to halt, which I did (at idle speed to maintain steerageway in the wind and current).
They then came adjacent to the quarter and interrogated me about 'taking forbidden pictures', which I denied since I had no idea what niece had been doing. They were not amused. Finally, as word got around the crew, niece fessed up; and after looking over her camera, they allowed us to proceed down to Corpus.
*Naval Station Ingleside was a huge boondoggle in an improbable location for minesweeping. It cost taxpayers many billion$ of dollars to build from scratch (took years), equip and man.
It was active status for about a decade and a half, then was BRAC'ed.
Then it was sold off in pieces to oil companies for about $98 million total, losing about 5-10-20 billion dollar$ in value. An almost complete waste of tax money.
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