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I saw this on Tucker Carlson last night. Here is a direct link to you tube.

I have watched this several time and I don't have a clue but I am no expert. I read about Water injection (engine) which creates the black contrails but is it used this high for this long? One of the you tube comments claims it's an old school surface to air missile fueled with solid propellant.

You can watch in 720p.

I know there are some experts out there so give me a sign man.

1 posted on 04/03/2018 4:15:12 PM PDT by BBell
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Over the Aegean? A Gyro.


2 posted on 04/03/2018 4:21:13 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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Looks like another aircraft flying on a different heading, about 80 degrees to the photographers heading.

Not a SAM. Too slow.


3 posted on 04/03/2018 4:23:08 PM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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When the contrail moves from left to right the video looks like it skips to me.


4 posted on 04/03/2018 4:23:09 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (This country & world is living on borrowed time (Luke 17:26-27))
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Not sure why there’s black contrail, but the odd flight path is almost certainly a trick of perspective and movement of the observer in the plan relative to the other plane making the contrail.

UFO? I guess. Alien/Extraterrestial? Um, no.

5 posted on 04/03/2018 4:23:45 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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My guess. About the time the Chinese space station reentered the atmosphere.


6 posted on 04/03/2018 4:25:58 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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*ping*


7 posted on 04/03/2018 4:28:16 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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It is the contrail of another airplane near the same AGL. Despite the narrative and appearance, the contrail isn't black. The sun is illuminating the opposite side making the viewer see a darker contrast with the background. It is same effect that makes clouds look dark when viewed from the ground. They are all white from above.

Water injection was only used at takeoff with turbojets to keep the burner cans cooler at full power. A B-52 or KC-135 would only have about a minute's worth of water on board for injection. This would create sooty exhaust but not a black contrail...except

It was so cold at Grand Fork North Dakota one day (-40 degrees F) that I did witness a KC-135 contrailing at takeoff. I never want to be that cold again.

Solid propellants used in missiles burn with a very white or slightly yellowish plume, not black. A missile plume is also more persistent than that contrail it would be streaming from the source.

12 posted on 04/03/2018 4:38:38 PM PDT by pfflier
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It’s another airliner, just below the local horizon after sunset at a lower altitude, making it’s contrail appear dark.


14 posted on 04/03/2018 4:45:32 PM PDT by onedoug
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Contrail of airplane flying approx. perpendicular to airplane from which this video is taken (explains movement of contrail). It is dark, I believe because a higher altitude cloud layer is above contrail, out of view, and is blocking the sun, and casting a shadow on to the contrail, which makes it look darker. If could see below the wing, at the cloud layer far down below, would see more of the shadow.


15 posted on 04/03/2018 4:47:33 PM PDT by RCFlyer
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Black contrails, huh? Well, maybe if the aliens changed their oil regularly they’d get better mileage.


16 posted on 04/03/2018 4:47:35 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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“To Serve Man”.


17 posted on 04/03/2018 4:49:04 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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Turkish F-4 with the old smoker engines. You could literally follow them through dense fog because of the trail they left.


19 posted on 04/03/2018 4:57:12 PM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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It just looks like a jet contrail to me.


21 posted on 04/03/2018 5:05:11 PM PDT by rdl6989
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22 posted on 04/03/2018 5:06:21 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without nalism is a fraud.)
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Looks like a jet aircraft trailing a long plume of exhaust/contrail under the right conditions to do so.


23 posted on 04/03/2018 5:07:04 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Greek Air Force still flies F-4’s, they leave black smoke.


26 posted on 04/03/2018 5:23:31 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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That image looks like a B52 from behind.When those 8 engines are running they smoke like hell.

Most commercial jets have much cleaner burning engines.


27 posted on 04/03/2018 5:40:09 PM PDT by puppypusher (T)
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A B52 flying at 90 degrees away from passenger craft?


28 posted on 04/03/2018 6:07:07 PM PDT by Figment
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29 posted on 04/03/2018 6:08:50 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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An image of something moving at high elevation taken from something else that is moving at a high elevation. It - the suspect image - could be all sorts of things.


30 posted on 04/03/2018 6:15:13 PM PDT by Wuli
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