reply to post by Skelkie3
Skelkie, some of what you posted goes directly to my earlier comments...let's not use examples of possible normal contrails, eh?
I saw a jumbo jet spewing vapors in a huge oval... over some of the most controlled military airspace in the world.
You're in Arizona, as noted below. I know thre are a lot of Restricted Areas and MOAs there. They are military controlled.
...I thought I saw an aircraft dumoping fuel for some reason... leaving aperfect racetrack shaped oval of material that was +/- 15 miles X 5
miles.
You've just described a "holding pattern":
en.wikipedia.org...(aviation)
As if this wasn't strange enough, the aircraft came back several hours later, and made a low level run through the area. I say it was the same
aircraft because ' both ' were Boeing 737's painted bright orange.
Earlier, though I edited it out for brevity, you described the airplane "dumping fuel" as a jumbo jet. A Boeing 737 is not a jumbo jet, nor can it
dump fuel.
I haven't often seen bright orange 737's at a thousand feet in this part of the remote Arizona desert...
Initial spray was about 30000-40000 feet.
THIS is very confusing, and contradictory. Can you elaborate? A 'bright orange' 737 at a thousand feet, then at "30000-40000 feet"??
30,000 feet is nearly six miles!! Did you use binoculars??
Also, bright orange? There are airplanes that will have bright orange markings, usually on the tails and wingtips, but not the entire airplane. The
bright orange markings are to denote a military
unarmed aircraft. It is high visibility for a reason!!! Seems if they were trying to spray in
a clandestine manner, they'd be less obvious....
[edit on 4 July 2009 by weedwhacker]