Author Topic: Don't look like contrail to me.? UFO? Military? (Read 1182 times)

Sandman · « **Reply #15 on:** October 16, 2003, 04:30:22 PM »

Looks like a contrail... not going down in the frame, but going up with the sun illuminating the tail end.

Octavius · « **Reply #16 on:** October 16, 2003, 06:19:13 PM »

But then the 'tail end' looks a bit more intact and 'fresh'.

If you compare both pics, the 2nd pic (the one sandy posted) looks more disipated and 'older' near the top than it does the bottom.

Do the colors of the "fire" match the sunlight on the clouds? They seem to differ very slightly. Although it's probably just the angle.

udet · « **Reply #17 on:** October 16, 2003, 06:21:20 PM »

they was saying on space.com they thought it was the Concorde with sunlight reflecting off it. I don't think so

most likely an alien inseminating ship entered our atmosphere and pretty soon a deadly virus will make alien babies inside women at PMS.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #18 on:** October 16, 2003, 06:59:59 PM »

I knew Star Wars was real... I just knew it...

Otto · « **Reply #19 on:** October 16, 2003, 07:15:17 PM »

It looks like some type of 'fuel burn' but I don't understand the 'how' or 'why'.

I think the F-111 (no longer in service) could do something like this by jetisoning fuel and turning on the AB. It was a 'party trick' they did at Air Shows.

Very strange....

Vulcan · « **Reply #20 on:** October 16, 2003, 07:49:19 PM »

Its not a contrail.

Look at the relative lighting of the clouds above and below, and the trail. It doesn't add up to be something lit by the sun. If it is lit by the sun then the rest of the trail should show it.

Wonder what the relative scale is, that looks like a fairly high cloud layer, that would make it a big arse smoke trail and a big object creating it.

Octavius · « **Reply #21 on:** October 16, 2003, 08:06:04 PM »

here's my take supporting the illuminated contrail:

A contrail from a nearby decending Concord (space.com never said the bright stuff WAS a concord). Since the angle at which both photos were snapped is kind of skewed, the trail appears to be decending (left to right) and not parallel to the surface.

Perhaps the concord decends, leaves a contrail in the cooler air at higher altitudes, and hits a warmer pocket or layer of air at a certain point... warm enough to prevent further formation. Perhaps the cooler/warmer air is dramatic and rising warm air at this alt "squishes" or distorts the contrail.

The distorted end just happens to be in direct path of sunlight....

It's possible =] Just not enough evidence to test it

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #22 on:** October 16, 2003, 08:16:25 PM »

In the first picture, look at the illumation of it. The whitest area is facing the sun with it becoming less illuminated in areas that are more than likely not near the sun and finally ending in cloud like colors towards the edge.

Or Uranus ate too many beans last night. Get it, Uranus? God of sky, get it? Get it?
-SW

majic · « **Reply #23 on:** October 16, 2003, 08:19:26 PM »

That's what it looks like to me octavius.

Dinger · « **Reply #24 on:** October 16, 2003, 09:47:23 PM »

It's a contrail. Digital Cameras don't have the dynamic range of film cameras; the result is that the generic settings necessary to get the surroundings are going to overexpose the reflected light in the contrail. Add in some chromatic distortion at the edges fo the settings, a fast-moving jet, and there you go.

I live under J-80 and see a lot of beautiful contrails. Can only think of a couple clear days when there weren't any of any sort. And those were bad days.

Sandman · « **Reply #25 on:** October 16, 2003, 11:15:00 PM »

The light can do strange things... this is a Minuteman missile shot out of Vandenberg that happened about a year ago.

The "freshest" part of the contrail is the at the top of the screen.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #26 on:** October 16, 2003, 11:27:28 PM »

It is a contrail, illumninated with the color orange by a setting sun, and billowed by wind.

According to Occam's razor, this is what it is.

Octavius · « **Reply #27 on:** October 17, 2003, 12:55:45 AM »

the AH BBS solves yet another of life's mysteries... wtg!

bigsky · « **Reply #28 on:** October 17, 2003, 01:47:44 AM »

cruise missle test gone bad. thats what it looks like to me.

Modas · « **Reply #29 on:** October 17, 2003, 08:03:12 AM »

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Originally posted by Saurdaukar
I knew Star Wars was real... I just knew it...

LOL!!!

Good one!!

Signature material for sure!!