Really? An Airplane?

[Huey]

They are saying this is a contrail from an airplane. Anybody else buying it?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AMdHBgHtNE[/youtube]

 

[PaulyT]

Aliens! Aliens, I tell you!

 

[Huey]

Aliens! Aliens, I tell you!

While I don't think it's aliens :mrgreen: , it wouldn't surprise me if China or North Korea snuck within miles of our border and touched off a missile. Hopefully not, but I just can't believe it's an airplane.
Rob

 

[Botch]

Right at 0:38 seconds you can clearly see the rocket exhaust. I have seen sunlight glint off the bottom of an airliner before, but not that intensely. Nor have I ever seen a jet contrail spread out like this plume did.

 

[Wardsweb]

Plausible deniability - there is a weapons range in the Pacific Ocean West of LA, and "Civilian" contractors may be testing there at times. The military has a STANDARD policy of denial of any knowledge of anything connected to such secret missile testing.

 

[DIYer]

Aliens! Aliens, I tell you!

That would have trail coming down, not going up. :think:

 

[soundhound]

I see missile launches from Vandenberg AFB all the time, and this looks just like a missile launch. It ain't no airplane.

 

[Yesfan70]

I'm not buying it either.

 

[Rope]

If the government says it's an airplane, then it's a GD airplane, after all, they always been up front with us in the past. bscene-birdiedoublered:

Rope

 

[Kazaam]

That it's an "optical illusion" seems plausible to me. But who of us really knows?

 

[Botch]

One thing that kept me from thinking this was an airplane is that most flights occur daily, and we should've seen this before.

Well, they have:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2010/11/11/moos.mystery.contrail.mania.cnn?hpt=C2

(some funny clips in that link, too)

 

[Kazaam]

One thing that kept me from thinking this was an airplane is that most flights occur daily, and we should've seen this before.

Well, they have:

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2010/11/11/moos.mystery.contrail.mania.cnn?hpt=C2

(some funny clips in that link, too)

I liked the Iron Man suggestion, myself.

 

[mzpro5]

Seems to be moving awfully slow for it to be a rocket.

 

[Yesfan70]

If the government says it's an airplane, then it's a GD airplane, after all, they always been up front with us in the past. bscene-birdiedoublered:

Rope

LOL! Project Blue Book anyone?