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To: dr_lew

I’m not saying it actually is one, just that the shape, trajectory and suggestions of aerodynamics make it look rather so. There’s even what looks like a shockwave ahead of the object evident in the edge of the cloudbank.

Not sure what you’re using as reference for scale, either. It could be anything from the size of a VW Beetle on up to Space Shuttle in size, perhaps even larger than that.


47 posted on 04/15/2009 10:32:39 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

I’m using the general appearance of the clouds for scale, along with an assumption of their height, so just a cloud-watcher’s feeling.

The “contrails” are very “lazy” and appear to be trailing an object going 10’s of mile per hour. An Apollo capsule on reentry would have traversed this scene in a few seconds ... at 100,000 feet! At the apparent altitude of this shape, or object, it would have its chutes open. I would have to guess that this is a purely meteorological phenomenon. Some kind of vortex at altitude? Who knows!


49 posted on 04/15/2009 10:46:10 PM PDT by dr_lew
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