On Thu Sep-08-2016 08:54, Paul Quinn (3:640/1384) wrote to Roger Nelson:

Hi,

 PQ> On 09/07/2016 07:42 AM, you wrote:

[...]

 PQ> It's basically the same here, being in the sub-tropics and close to
 PQ> the east coast.  A lot of our weather is generated either off of
 PQ> the Pacific ocean or the hot/dry bush to our west.  So, roughly 50%
 PQ> of the time it's either hot & wet or hot & dusty/smokey.

Well, I have Lake Pontchartrain and other assorted lakes and streams above
me and the Gulf of Mexico below, which sort of means I'm between a rock and
a hard place.

 PQ> OTOH there are times in late autumn or early spring where the
 PQ> weather is postcard perfect.  Cool & dry and the viewing goes to
 PQ> infinity, seemingly.  It was just such an occasion when I saw what
 PQ> could only have been an Aurora-type craft, though I did think for a
 PQ> while I had seen an atmosphere-skipping satellite/space debris
 PQ> during a re-entry (I did read of an instance of such at about that
 PQ> time, a month or so later).

October is my favorite month.  The weather here is usually great and none
of the citizenry in this area are oppressed by the humidity, which can be
daunting at times.

 PQ> I should fess up & say that I didn't see the actual craft.  It was
 PQ> much too high, and very fast moving ('gone in 30 seconds').  What I
 PQ> saw was the characteristic 'wake' of an Aurora.  They don't make
 PQ> typical contrails.  (This is something I've since seen on a doco
 PQ> flick of some sort.)  It confirmed what I observed; as if the sky
 PQ> and sea were inverted, and the craft was making a speedy wake
 PQ> through the water.

Then it wasn't donut contrails?  It might have been an SR-71.


Regards,

Roger 
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