[The Magical Mischief Tour]

I wonder if this “top aviation journalist” knows that missiles leave contrails too...

[hinckley buzzard]

Watching the tape it is clear that there is only one exhaust trail. It might have been a single engine fighter with the afterburner on, but where did it take off from, 35 miles out to sea?

I've been watching missiles(rockets) for the entire space age, ever since Vanguard and Farsides, and this was a missile.

[hinckley buzzard]

Watching the tape it is clear that there is only one exhaust trail. It might have been a single engine fighter with the afterburner on, but where did it take off from, 35 miles out to sea?

I've been watching missiles(rockets) for the entire space age, ever since Vanguard and Farsides, and this was a missile.

[pepperdog]

And that was the ONLY plane in the sky at that time? Off the coast of CA? In the whole visible sky? I don’t think so.