[Rokke]

"Don't you find it just a LITTLE BIT ODD that the only double bogie in the whole segment is EXACTLY the one where the pilot REPORTED seeing something?"

How much of the available data have you actually watched? In the course of an hour, or 6 hours or 24 hours, how many false returns show up? The only targets that are going to show up on this system are aircraft with IFF transponders or false images. There could have been a 20 missile salvo fired at this aircraft, and not a single one of those missiles would show up on what you are looking at. That is just a plain fact.

[mad_as_he$$]

Coulda doesn't get it. The pilot reported something at the same time the radar had a track. Nothing else really matters. What it was we will probably never know. But if a 737 takes one up the tailpipe next week off LA we will have a good idea what it was.

[adamsjas]

There could have been a 20 missile salvo fired at this aircraft, and not a single one of those missiles would show up on what you are looking at. That is just a plain fact.

But that does not explain why two members of a highly trained flight crew reported a fast smoke track passing them, and this happened EXACTLY when and where it shows on that site.