Originally Posted by
Klauss
Hi, i think it was too close - way too close. Missiles have gone off-course on occasion.
Well one would need to see the border restricted area where this occurred and the position of the aircraft with regard to that boundary. Yes missiles veer off track and that could ( emphasis on could) explain the aggressive turn request by ATC.
in 1999 I was flying around Santa Barbara at a period when they were testing the Patriot intercepting ballistic missiles shot from in the nearby Vanderberg base at the time . You could have been flying closer than that. from a launch.