The apparent 95% of people that refuse to believe that it may simply be an interesting optical illusion makes me wonder if we really DO need the elites to do our thinking for us.
I am often disappointed with the lack of logical skepticism found in our society.
Important questions - Did the cameraman continue to roll the video or simply cut it off?
You take an incomplete video, add talking heads on a slow news day, and created a conspiracy theory that will last until death for thousands.
Have any of you watched a video of an ICBM launch?
To those saying the contrail is bigger at the bottom.... do air currents affect vapor at 35000 feet? Does water vapor stay in one spot or dissipate? Have you never seen an uneven contrail in the sky?
Ask yourself why the cameraman did not continue to shoot video of the object? Did the cameraman shoot the whole video and select a small portion to create his own illusion? If they really thought it was a missile what was more exciting at this moment 35 miles off the coast near LA?
Post 9/11, they scramble jets to everything. Why was there no reaction from NORAD or the military?
Again, we take an interesting video that should entertain any skeptic and create a politicized conspiracy theory out of it. Pass the popcorn and enjoy the debate.
“You can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason themselves into.”
“The apparent 95% of people that refuse to believe that it may simply be an interesting optical illusion makes me wonder if we really DO need the elites to do our thinking for us.”
Well if anything it’s been an interesting display of human nature. Imagine when things get more complex.
Our propensity for wanting something to be is something we all must keep in self check and fight self deception.
Hence good scientific process and a good skeptical tool kit.
That being said, I can see something visually impactful as this being hard to understand without some experience and knowledge about it. So it is expected on some level.