I heard that is was traveling west. You say it was traveling east. Fine. I have no grounds to stick to what I heard, and I’m willing to grant that it might have been traveling east.
Question: what was it? The FAA radar tapes show no plane in that area (see page 3 of this article):
But the entire question of “area” and “west” or “east”, is all about how you perceive the image you are seeing, which is the point I am trying to make.
It doesn’t matter what you or I heard. Those people who SAID it was moving west didn’t say that because they have physical evidence that shows an object moving west. They said it because that’s what they think they see on the video.
There IS a radar track for flight 808, and it apparently conforms with the contrails we wee, and that flight was moving from west to east.
If it was the plane travelling west to east, then it’s location wasn’t where people assumed the contrail was; you can’t really TELL where the contrail is, because looking at things from a distance over the horizon doesn’t give you references that work.
As I have noted elsewhere, watch the moon as it rises out of the ground at night. See how much bigger it is than when it is up in the sky. Our brains simply process what we see based on our most common visuals, which are near-field visuals with lots of contrast and different objects at different but close ranges.
We don’t do nearly so well when looking up into the sky and judging things. We think airplanes are going to collide when they are simply different sizes and miles apart. Watch the video, and you’ll see at some point a plane come SHOOTING ACROSS the video. The first time you see it, it should probably startle you, because at that point you think you are watching a very fast-moving rocket, and suddently here comes a plane moving so much faster. Then your brain processes it, and suddenly you are looking at a plane flying across a field with a contrail sitting still in the image.