Dante
"The Libido for the Ugly"
Lived close to airport approaches for almost my whole life. That was a plane, not a missile.
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I think those who thought it was a missle are being fooled by the persoective. You're looking at a 3D event in 2D. On a news someone showed pictures of a jet fly path from two angles, corresponding to the location and time of the mystery "rocket". From one perspective it looked like a missle going straight up, but from the other a more level flight path is evident. Besides, the speed of the object percludes it being a military missle, leaving only conventional aircraft or an amateur rocket as options.
We are not left with what it is... We, those of us that know what a con trail looks like 2d or 3d inclusive, are certain it was not made by any commercial aircraft. I'm a pilot sport. I've seen con trails from every imaginable angle. 2d/3d don't wash.
The main news orgs were trying to pass this off as a Hawaian air passenger jet this evening. How stupid do they think we are?
Objects at the horizon are also perceived larger than objects higher up. (This is a really cool optical illusion concerning the moon. When it is at the horizon it perceived as huge, when it is at the zenith, it is perceived as small. It is the same size, about the diameter of nickel, in both places. Sometime when the moon is out and full, try this out!)
Normal contrail from a commercial jet heading from west to east. Also a normal opitical illusion that objects starting at the horizon and going to the top of an image are moving in a vertical direction. This is the way the brain is programmed to interpet that data, as it is the usual 99% of the time correct interpretation. However, human brains when they were formed did not have the problem of an object starting at the horizon at 30,000 feet and crossing over your head at 30,000 feet.
One of the weird thing about the way the mind processes information about the sky is that we think the sky meets the earth in a big bowl (That is how the brain processes the picture, most of us intellectually are more aware than that) Objects at the horizon are also perceived larger than objects higher up. (This is a really cool optical illusion concerning the moon. When it is at the horizon it perceived as huge, when it is at the zenith, it is perceived as small. It is the same size, about the diameter of nickel, in both places. Sometime when the moon is out and full, try this out!)
So definitely contrail.