Posted on 11/10/2010 8:24:09 AM PST by MindBender26
California Contrail Explained - Not Missile
After having about 10 experienced pilots and another 20 of us who are accustomed to watching missile launches from Cape Canaveral review tape, we have most probable answer for the mysterious California contrail. Tape was also reviewed by senior official at NGA.
It is not a missile. It is the contrail of a airliner at altitude moving toward the camera, at an angle of about 30 degrees off center to the right. Retired TRANSPAC airline pilots and USAF types said it was a rather common sight to see as they are climbing out over water on a westerly heading at sunset.
A few clues:
1. This is not as new event. The photographer who took video said in interview that it was very much like others he had seen week earlier.
2. Expanding contrail plume gives illusion that bottom/rear of plume is closer to observer than the top/newest part of plume, that which is near the aircraft. It is an illusion.
3. The light emanating from the object that looks like rocket flame is a reflection of the sun off the aluminum bottom of the a/c fuselage. The clues that it is not a rocket flame are that it is not hidden by contrail, and more importantly, is the same color temperature as the sun's other reflections.
4. There were no alarms from the DSP satellites. They detect heat from rocket launches from geostationary orbit. They are very good, so good in fact that when Sovs had a fire in an ICBM silo a few years ago, it was reported at NORAD immediately.
5. No radar, and there are numerous ATC and air defense radars in that area, had any track, primary or transponder, of any object on a course as speculated.
All in all, a false alarm. A very interesting one, but a false alarm.
Not the first false alarm, either. In the 60s, we went to DEFCON 2 based on DEW and PineTree line radar returns indicating Sov bombers inbound over Greenland. Was really delayed radar echoes off the rising moon.
“No radar, and there are numerous ATC and air defense radars in that area, had any track, primary or transponder, of any object on a course as speculated”
So if it was an airliner, they should have a recording of it on radar in that area at the time the object was seen.
If this is true, then please tell me what airline and what flight number. Waiting...
If this is true, then please tell me what airline and what flight number. Waiting...
I believe nothing that the government puts out.
LLS
Nothing to see here folks, move along.
Never looked like anything other than a distant jet to me.
Nobody is going to believe the BULLSH1T that is being spread around!! Transparent government, my ass!!
I believe on some other sites a Flight 808 from Hawaii is mentioned (Icould have flight # wrong).
An airliner?
Then it should be perfectly possible to tell us WHICH airliner this was that caused the contrail.
We certainly know the scheduled whereabouts of airliners.
Get with it or just shut up until you have REAL information.
(Not telling the poster to shut up; rather, those behind the airliner theory - which should not be a theory but should be based on provable fact)
FYI
If that is so then please post a video on You Tube or some such place of a similar jet contrail happening. For it happens regularly enough according to your panelists. Should not be a hard video to make.
Anyone who has ever watched a launch could easily discern this was a solid rocket, not an airplane. The big base of smoke low and the swirl pattern of the missile doing a course correction, not to mention the burn coming from the end of the thing as it's going vertical are dead giveaways to even the casual observer.
Rather than tell the truth, these clowns have decided to do the usual "You're obviously too stupid to tell what happened. Let us explain it for you" routine.
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