[TXnMA]

Beyond (later IN TIME) -- and the endpoint is, as you say, where the contrail-forming object (plane) is in the last frame of that clip. And, of course, it was coming toward you...

(We agree.)

There is almost no way to say that succinctly and in such a manner that it cannot be misconstrued. Believe me -- I tried many variant wordings...

[RobRoy]

>>There is almost no way to say that succinctly and in such a manner that it cannot be misconstrued.<<

I agree. And I think that is how the missile theory was able to hang on so long.

I took a communication class back in 1982. In one experiment, everyone was given six shapes that, when organized a certain way, would form a triangle. Several students were told, one at a time, to go to the front of the class and, with the answer on a podium in front of them, instruct the class, using ONLY WORDS, on how to put it together correctly. After three students tried (I was the first) and NOBODY in the class could get it together, a fourth student was told to do it and he could hold up the pieces to illustrate. It took less than a minute to get the entire class to finish.

If everyone on this thread could be in a room with a projection of a couple of these images on a wall, we’d have had this put to bed in no time.