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xdfanatic wrote:I don't know if anyone has thought of this but there has been a contest going on for a while that was put on by some group (the name of which I forgot) that said they will pay the first person or group 10 million dollars that gets the first non government/NASA sponsored spacecraft into space. I don't think this is true but it kind of goes along with the theories as to why there was not a report of it being a plane. I am also of the theory that it is most likely a plane that was behind schedule or something of that nature and that's why there is no record of it.

PBratton wrote:We had a bunch of paniced folks in the Houston/Galveston area a few weeks back when there were contrails in a racetrack patterns overhead in various areas.

The story was that NASA was collecting air samples and weather data with their WB-57.

Some filks get upset over the smallest of things... Personally, I'd be upset if I saw a single contrail approaching then suddenly reversing course.

I witnessed this once, before they shut down the Austin air base, I saw several contrails approaching Houston from the west, then breaking off to the east. Seems we'd been attacked, (simulated, of course), by the Austin group.