I'm glad to see that wisdom has largely prevailed on this site (unlike the commenters on other sites...yikes). It is indeed a jet contrail. Space (orbital or suborbital) launches around sunset or twilight look quite different, and they are visible just about *anywhere* in Southern California, not confined to a small band of observers in and around Orange County. They look something like this:
If it was a missile, how come the pilots of AWE808 didn't see it?
It would be nice of CBS to put up a proper full length video so one can figure this out.
... therefore I am not!
So you're believing a camera-wielding traffic reporter over people who have seen launches?
The story will disappear in a day, and the only thing left will be a few kooks with conspiracy theories. Those kooks will post about this for years.
Yup, including NASA... http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/mystery-contrail.html
Quote from: robertross on 11/16/2010 11:48 pmYup, including NASA... http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/mystery-contrail.htmlPlease note that the site actually debunks the conspiracy theory. Isn't that the kind of thing you would prefer that NASA do?
The 'winky' was used to play on the 'The story will disappear in a day...' comment
you mean Chris is going to mod it out of existance
You mean Chris is going to mod it out of existance...