I live right under a major flight path. The jets fly high enough that both "contrails" just appear as one-due to the distance. I have seen similar contrails over the years as what the news guy filmed, well maybe not exact but very close.
That being said I'm still maybe 10% undecided but I'm pretty much leaning towards the jet theory especially as more info comes out. What is convincing to me is LA is home to 9 million people. Surely someone would have seen and taped more footage or been in a better position to say what actually happened...especially since it happened at 5:00 p.m.
Well, see...... that's the point. People 'in' LA would not see it, especially in the same perspective, as the pilot who took the VIDEO. He was in a helicopter, thousands of feet in altitude, maybe tens of thousands of feet, and was 35 miles from the nearest coastline.
OK, let’s take your points one at a time:
1. High altitude, one contrail. The footage I saw showed the “phenomenon” at a relatively low altitude—very close (relatively speaking) to the ocean’s surface and arcing skyward.
2. 5PM more people would have seen and possibility filmed it. At that hour most of LA is on the freeways going home from work. They would be hard pressed—given rush hour traffic—to be paying attention to anything but was right in front of them. They would be even more hard pressed to stop, get a digital recording device going and then film the event. Heck, by the time they did all that the “phenomenon” would have faded to almost nothing.
In addition, you have not accounted for the white flame emanating from the tail of the “phenomena”. To see that, let alone film it, the “phenomenon” must be flying at an attitude (from the earth up) to see it. Point one: I’ve never seen a commercial airliner engine exhaust white hot flame at any angle or altitude—let alone at a high altitude. The only thing one sees when viewing high altitude contrails is the contrail plume and that usually forms up well behind the airliner. To wit: There is a gap between the airliner and the visible contrail. There was zero gap between the “phenomenon”, the white hot flame and then the white exhaust.
Now, I’m not a tin foil hat kind of guy. So you don’t even want to go there. On the other hand, those who espouse the
contrail theory are (IMHO) desperate to 1. Not want to believe American security has been compromised to this extent or 2. Cover up something. I don’t believe it was an errant US launch because that would require the complicity of so many people and it would be very difficult to defeat the fail safe protocol. So what does that leave us with? Your thoughts?
Nine million psychotic a**holes screwed up on drugs that voted for Jerry the Gerbil.