Where did mysterious smoke trail over California come from? by Zuzana Zelenakova

Southern California was alerted Monday night a bit as there appeared a smoke trail resembling that of a missile in the sky. However, various US government agencies stated Tuesday that they were not aware of any missile launch in the area and were no table to explain the vapor trail. "Nobody within the Department of Defense that we've reached out to has been able to explain what this contrail is, where it came from," said Pentagon spokesman Col. Dave Lapan. Apart from Pentagon the reporters asked also the Air Force, the Navy, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, the US Northern Command and the Federal Aviation Administration. However, a series of civilian experts c! ame with an explanation claiming that the trail was left by an airplane, not a missile. Video shot by KCBS team in a helicopter showed an object flying near Los Angeles leaving behind a condensation trail. The video was made at sunset and that is the reason people confused the contrail with one created by a missile launch. "This thing is so obviously an airplane contrail, and yet apparently all the king's horses and all the king's men can't find someone to stand up and say it," said a defense and aerospace expert Joh Pike from GlobalSecurity.org. "I guess the president's out of town." According to him the object was moving too slow to be a missile. "There's a reason that they're called rockets," he added. Simple optical illusion caused the contrail to look like it started on the ground and then headed into the sky. Pike´s estimation of the situation was approved also by many other experts. "There are multiple hypotheses for the contrail seen near Los Angeles. But the m! ost likely one is pretty boring: It's a jet . . . viewed from ! a weird angle," wrote nuclear weapons expert Jeffrey Lewis on the Internet.

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