[Gondring]

Go to http://www4.passur.com/sna.html and
set the top boxes for November 8, 2010, at 17:27. Set the map scaling (on the right side of the screen) to 85 miles.

Hit "Start Replay," and a little after 17:27, UPS902 appears on the map west of Catalina Island. It does a little jig west of the island, disappears from the screen for a few Area-51 moments at 17:31, comes back a few seconds before 17:32 as it passes over the navigational point/island at 29000 feet, and then continues to follows the path that we saw.

[Danae]

Could it have been THT7 out of LAX at 1731 North of Catalina Island?? At 12 thousand feet? That makes no sense though. That contrail went below the clowds at the horizon it was coming from the west and arced towards the NW from what I can see based on the sunlight on the contrail itself.

This was a launch, not an aircraft.