Which facts are they lying about?
The photos are lies?
Flight UPS902 is a fabrication?
The flight path of UPS902 is a lie?
What is their motivation for deliberately misleading me?
Finny, my first impression was that it looked alot like a missile
but I hope you by now know that I don’t take things on first impressions,
mine own or other peoples’.
It quickly became apparent that the contrail hypothesis fit the available facts
and that there were gapping holes in the missle hypothesis.
As time went on and new information became available
it further supported the contrail hypothesis
Therefore I went and continue to go with the mostly likely explanation...it was a contrail.
I do not wish to disabuse you of your opinion.
I believe it is inaccurate but you must come to that conclusion on your own.
I am not so much presenting my opinion to you, as I am trying to WARN you that there are forces at work deliberately trying to mislead you with regard to this event. In the past, we've sparred over inconsequential things like pit bulls. This missile thing is consequential.
I say the same to all other fellow FReepers who are putting so much trust in a poorly identified, unvetted source that is practiced and skilled at spinning convincing-looking animations, photo-overlays, time-lapse photography, and red herrings via mislabeled photos.
I and others here are on the front lines, have knowledge of missile phenomonon by pure luck of the draw of living here, and we are doing our best to give you a heads-up: you're being jacked around by folks who know that most of you are too unfamiliar with missile launches vs air contrails to know, just like I am too unfamiliar with some aspect of where YOU live to know if I was having my leg pulled or not.
If something serious happened in your neck of the woods that you saw being aggressively whitewashed with all kinds of "proof" that would be very convincing to people unfamiliar with the reality of the particulars in question, I trust and hope you would do the same: give the rest of us a heads-up.
Very affectionately yours,
Finny