Optical illusion caused by the earths curvature my BUTT !!! THAT'S ONE HECK OF A CONTRAIL !!! BS ! BS ! BS !
I'll have to send you some recent photos of "commercial" aircraft leaving "contrails" from horizon to horizon, in a grid pattern here in NC last week.
Three aircraft, flying in formation, the lead plane leaving a normal contrail (about the length of your hand when you hold it out at arms length and line it up with the plane) and two planes behind and flanking it, leaving "contrails" literally from horizon to horizon, which hung in the sky for nearly 2 hours. They first flew south to north, disappeared over the horizon, then a few minutes later, , a little to the east, they returned, flying north to south, and repeated this twice, leaving 8 evenly-spaced "contrails" that hung in the sky, from horizon to horizon, for nearly 2 hours.
Funny thing was, the "lead" plane left a "normal" contrial like ALL aircraft did when we were kids. So the whole "certain atmospheric conditions" argument to explain these long, puffy, weird "contrails" is completely BS in this instance...
Even if this CA incident WAS an airliner, the trail it is leaving is NOT a "contrail". The "con" in contrail stands for "condensation"... Aluminum oxide and barium sulfide are NOT condensation, nor are they standard exhaust constituents for jet fuel, but when tested, the air under these super-long "contrails" almost ALWAYS contains unusually high levels of these compounds....
My guess is this event in CA was one of three things:
1) some super-secret military test launch that the DOD doesn't want to admit to,
2) a "demo launch" for some foreign government by an American arms manufacturer, that the government doesn't want to admit to (AeroJet is located out there, near this event),
3) some super-rich "high-power amateur rocketry" geek who figured his privilege and status would exclude him from having to get proper FAA clearance for a launch like this. A solid rocket motor getting into the "R" or "S" impulse class could possibly leave a plume like this video shows, and could easily propel a light HPR to the altitudes shown in the videos...
The 3rd option is, IMO, the most desirable explanation. Sure it's dangerous to the airspace, and a SERIOUS violation of FAA regulations, but it's probably not any sort of threat to the people of CA, other than the fact that it shows that someone with a LOT of money to burn (a solid rocket motor of this impulse class would cost several hundred dollars JUST for the propellant, and would have to be in a motor casing and rocket body that could be well over $1000 to build, not to mention the high-tech avionics and recovery hardware you would want on such a HPR, which could easily push the total cost of such a device to between $2000 and $3000--a LOT of money for a "hobby"...)
But frankly, I think it's probably "option 2". China, both Korea's, Pakistan, and Iran are ALL in the market for quality ballistic missile technology, and the USA has the best manufacturers of this technology. Missile tech is one of the FEW industries we still have a "superiority lock" on, both in terms of quality and domestic manufacturing capabilities...
We've funded, equipped, and trained our enemies for nearly 100 years. Why stop now? Our economy is in the shitter. If the military-industrial complex can make a few $billion selling ballistic missles to Pakistan or China, you'd better believe that they can and will get the State Department to sign off on such a transaction....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pklr0UD9eSo