engguy wrote:
Hmm is that aerodynamicly possible? And thats the first time I have seen something blow up and no flash just pure darkness more dark than the rest of the sky.
Plus it was a blue light from the ground, or did it project out of the spiral to the ground.
To eager to believe a story that was denied at first then recanted.
And never in the history of missiles and space junk has anyone ever seen something like this.
I think there is more to it.
There isn't because your assumptions aren't based on fact. Remember, this is an INTERCONTINENTAL missile. The failure occured during the 3rd stage burn, which is when the missile was in space. As such, what you saw was the exhaust gases and there was little "aerodynamics" involved since there was no "air" to act upon it. In addition, there was no explosion. The rocket ran out of fuel and thus the combustion stopped. Because there was no combustion, there was nothing to light the exhaust, and thus the light "went away".
Me thinks you've been seeing far too much Hollywood and far too little reality.

Edit - found this blog that has some much better video of the incident and makes it obvious that most of the still images shown have been heavily photoshopped to over-dramaticize the incident.
http://primewriter.com/news-1246-headlines/?p=1426