Every aircraft is required to have a transponder on board. Thus if there was no transponder signal recorded (as there must have been if this was an aircraft) it must have been something other than an aircraft. Seems simple enough.
WRONG.
Thus if there was no transponder signal recorded (as there must have been if this was an aircraft) it must have been something other than an aircraft. Seems simple enough.
There was a transponder signal. Go back into your hole.
The aircraft was known to be where it was. What threw people off was that fools misinterpreted the video of the contrail to place it very differently from where it actually was.