Missles or Chemtrails?

[Purple Haze]

"Miami center, I'd like to report a......contrail"

What the?!?!?

 

[EagleRJ]

Yeah, how would someone on the ground know that a contrail didn't belong to a known flight on a flight plan? And what makes them think the one seen in the Carribean was the same one seen over Florida and Indiana? The fighters should have been able to find whatever it was, given such a long track. WTF!

 

[jdog78]

It was reported that part of a russian rocket re-entered the atmosphere...not sure where it ultimately landed but some think that may have been the cause of the unidentified contrail.
In light of the yesterday's attempted missile attack on the Arkia 757 in Kenya, I think pilots everywhere are being especially vigilant about anything out of the ordinary. I , too, would be concerned about a contrail in our airspace whose origin is not known and is not on radar or talking to ATC.

-j

 

[Purple Haze]

I think pilots everywhere are being especially vigilant about anything out of the ordinary. I , too, would be concerned about a contrail in our airspace whose origin is not known and is not on radar or talking to ATC.

1. Contrails are highly ordinary.
2. Have you ever known the origin of a contrail you saw?
3. How does ATC see a contrail to associate it with an aircraft?
4. How would any person know if the source of any contrail is in radar contact?

Peculiar -- I'll buy the tie in with the Russian missile.

 

[dtoften]

Your mistaking two different incidents. The russian space junk was entering atmosphere in Western Canada during the night and could be seen as far south as Washington State to Montana going east bound. As for the contrails, it was seen in the Caribbean and Florida and Indiana going westbound during the day. My question is that why would the USAF scramble jets just for contrails? More like they had it on radar. Don't waste tens of thousands of dollars for contrails or clouds. They need more evidence to put up multiple jets throughout different states.

 

[flint4xx]

ATC came on frequesncy and said something to the affect, "Attention all aircraft, please advise if a contrail is observed traveling XXX at flight level YYY."

If anybody hears more please post here.

 

[jdog78]

One would hope that the powers that be in our government are at least as smart those of us posting on this thread. That being said, i'm sure there was a legitimate reason to scramble aircraft. It's not really our place to judge or ridicule the decisions made by these people because they're doing it to protect us. Media does tend to distort stories...the very reason i thought the contrail was associated with space rubbish was because i read a news story about it. So we're probably getting all worked up over nothing anyway.

-j

 

[LearAv8r]

I was flying the other day up the east coast when the guy in front of us (an RJ at FL290)saw the contrails and asked center if he had traffic. He said that it went by him fast and couldn't identify what it was. Jax Center then started asking a/c (AA) etc if they too say it and they said they couldn't see it. They were farther off than the RJ was and flying higher. We were at FL290 and there were layers of light clouds above. Some other aircraft did see the contrails but as far as I know it was never identified.



Kind of wanted to find out what the hell it was.

AL Queda drone maybe?