Chicken Little -- "The Sky Is Falling"

Interesting Twitter sequence this morning...

Weird story RT @ReutersIndia: Ballistic "objects" detected by Russian radar fell into sea - Russian news agency RIA cites source in Damascus
— DavidKenner (@DavidKenner) September 3, 2013

Sky News’ Tim Marshall: “Most likely explanation would be that the US is test firing some of its ship defense systems.” (Not confirmed)
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) September 3, 2013

hmm RT @adsteel: RT @elliottgotkine: Sky News says missile was a test-fire from a US vessel. #syria
— Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) September 3, 2013

Most probably, the ballistic missiles got to Lebanon and then got lost when they asked for directions and were told "near abu Joseph's shop"
— Karl Sharro (@KarlreMarks) September 3, 2013

@aaronstein1 Arleigh Burkes testing EW countermeasures? Would be easily detectable and might follow a short range ballistic trajectory..
— Andrew MacDonald (@SteelPriest) September 3, 2013

JUST IN: U-S official confirms to @CBSNews that no American ships/planes have launched missiles in Mediterranean after Russian report.
— Steve Grzanich (@SteveGrzanich) September 3, 2013

@aaronstein1 Yeah, 'objects' to me implies "we know these aren't missiles but want to give the impression of good surveillance"
— Andrew MacDonald (@SteelPriest) September 3, 2013

And all is well again… RT @abumuqawama: Elsewhere in the @washingtonpost, Richard Cohen writes about Miley Cyrus.
— Joseph Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) September 3, 2013

Cruise Missile = air breathing engine, terrain hugging, and slow (Tomahawk) Ballistic Missile = non-airbreathing, ballistic trajectory, fast
— Aaron Stein (@aaronstein1) September 3, 2013

Who's trigger-happy today? >> Russia’s early radars detect launch of two ballistic rockets in Mediterranean: http://t.co/1I3uuVoXXx
— Sharmine Narwani (@snarwani) September 3, 2013

Armavir, an early warning system against missile attack, is situated in southern Russia. It is
run by the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces. They provide radar coverage of the Middle 
East. There are two radars there, with one of them facing southwest and the other southeast. 

Well there you go RT @BreakingNews: Update: Israel says it carried out a joint missile test with the US in the Mediterranean - @Reuters
— Aaron Stein (@aaronstein1) September 3, 2013