New TOPOL missile launch

Just got word that Russia made a Topol missile launch from Kapustin Yar to Sary Shagan, the ninth in a series I've been watching very closely --
see www.jamesoberg.com...

I haven't even learned the launch time yet, if it was near sunset, except a million UFO reports to pop up on you tube.

Updates to follow.

Yep, UFO reports now coming in from Omsk. Videos to follow.
www.bk55.ru...

Interfax

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INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE TEST-FIRED FROM KAPUSTIN YAR RANGE AT 6:13 P.M. MOSCOW TIME, MISSILE HIT SIMULATED TARGET AT RANGE IN KAZAKHSTAN - RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY

a reply to: JimOberg

Shagan, the ninth in a series I've been watching very closely --

How many of those nine failed, do we know?

originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: JimOberg

Shagan, the ninth in a series I've been watching very closely --

How many of those nine failed, do we know?

The Topols are an old design, these were taken off alert duty after two decades -- the new warhead design was what was being tested. Of the first eight only four were videotaped [required dark sky but recent sunset coincidence], all four seemed to work.

Still awaiting posters in Omsk to wake up and post the images they got the previous evening.

So far we are NOT getting a flood of 'UFO videos' as we did with previous sunlit plumes of similar test flights. I've searched youtube, rutube, and yandex.ru and there is modest press coverage but the only images are stock photos of Soyuz launches, and several plume shots that look right except they are transposed left-to-right for the viewing geometry from Omsk -- probably also grabbed from some archive or website elsewhere.

The released launch video is clearly AFTER sunset. jusging from dark blue sky, but per heavens-above I calculate it was 45 minutes before sunset at launch time. So that video is stock footage as well, a common practice in the Russian media.

My two personal contacts in Omsk both report cloudy weather there at the time, the "intellicast" weather site lists cloud cover as shifting from 'broken' to 'scattered' as the evening progressed.

Other cities along that longitude to the south, such as Astana, ought to have had good viewing, maybe we need to wait for the rural returns to come in....

I checked weather for other urban areas that ought to have seen the missile plume -- Astana and Tashkent -- and the skies were clear, the fly-past was an hour after sundown, but so far no reports. Curious.

my preliminary report is on line
www.jamesoberg.com...