mysterious missile launches off the coast of southern California was caught by CBS (Ficture Missile)

mysterious missile launches off the coast of southern California was caught by CBS affiliate KCBS camera Monday night, and officials stay silent on the nature of the projectile.KFMB showed a 

video of the missile clear to former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Robert Ellsworth, a former Deputy Minister of Defence, to get his thoughts.

Magnificent images captured by news helicopters KCBS in LA on Monday night around sunset. The location of the missile about 35 miles northwest, west and north of LA Catalina Island.

A Navy spokesman said KFMB it's not their missiles. He said there was no activity reported by the Navy in the area Monday night.

On Friday night, Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California, launched a Delta II rocket, which brought Italian satellite into orbit, but a sergeant at the station KFMB says there is no current release since itu.Ellsworth urged Americans to wait for definitive answers come from the military.

When asked, however, what he thought might be, the former ambassador said that perhaps could be timed missile tests as a demonstration of American military might as President Obama's Asian tour.