I don't think this mission will result in spying on Saddam.
Mrs. Tell and I were inspecting her garden and admiring the rising moon when we noticed the vapor trail to the south of our place (about 60 miles north of San Francisco).
It was an object which I thought was an aircraft but which actually had the shape of a typical comet. The trail behind the craft made an angle which approached 45 degrees.
When I first saw the object it was ahead of the vapor trail by approximately one fifth the length of the trail.
The craft was moving at what seemed a very slow speed but I believe now that I was misjudging the altitude to be much lower than it apparently was.
We admired the object moving through the sky and we wondered what it could be since it was like nothing I had ever seen before.
Suddenly, it popped like a very distant, silent, soap bubble. We had the sensation that it brightened into a circular area,larger than the initial reflective craft, and then completely disappeared.
I predicted to the Mrs. that we would probably see comment within minutes on FR and I was not disappointed.