Mick West
Why Were There Contrails Today, But Not Yesterday? It's the Weather!
Today (Thursday Oct 6th, 2016) marked the first significant contrail morning for several months here in El Dorado County, Northern California. The above photo on the right of criss-crossing contrails was taken at 7:30AM, and planes continued to leave trails for the next few hours. I took photos of the jets, and they were just regular air traffic, mostly Alaska or other regional jets flying north or south, often to or from Los Angeles. They were all in the range 36,000 to 39,000 feet.
But it's Thursday, and the air traffic on Wednesday was pretty much identical. So why were there trails this morning, but not yesterday morning?
The answer is quite straightforward. It's the upper air weather!
Upper air weather is different to the weather on the ground. At 35,000 feet up it's very cold (usually below -40°F/-40°C)...
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Satellite ADS-B Data in FlightAware24 - Blue Planes Prove Globe Earth
https://www.flightradar24.com/-9.86,-93.83/3
The new blue planes in FlightRadar24 are flights that are transmitting GPS coordinates via satellite. These give a near-live position for planes over the open ocean (and some remote land areas), with delays of less than ten minutes.
This fills in areas of missing coverage, particularly near Antarctica, that the "Flat Earth" folk thought was evidence that southern hemisphere flights were being faked.
While it shows the (near) live position, it does not seem to show the historical track when you click on the plane. However, you can now see that planes do actually fly close to Antarctica - routes that only work on the globe Earth.
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Michael "Mad Mike" Hughes Dies in Rocket Malfunction
Yesterday Mike Hughes died when the parachute on his home-made rocket failed, and he crashed into the desert at an unsurvivable speed.
I met Mike in May of last year at the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas. We were at his "Exit The Matrix Expo," a badly organized and poorly attended flat earth convention that I had, for some bizarre reason, been invited to speak at.
I saw him standing in line at the Panda Express in the Hotel's food court. He looked over at me and said: "hey, are you Mick West?" We proceeded to have a very nice chat. He was a small wiry man, almost jockey small, a size which was a great help to him in following his dreams of becoming a famous daredevil.
Flat Earth didn't kill Mike. His death is not a cautionary tale of the dangers of weird conspiracy theories. He died following his passion and being blinded by optimism. Flat Earth was just something tacked on that gave him loads of publicity. Perhaps he came to...
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TTSA Exotic Material vs. Thermite Slag
In a talk last year by Luis Elizondo, this slide was shown
The one that caught my eye was the second from the right
Which instantly reminded me of a couple of pieces I have on my bookcase:
These are the result of burning some thermite in a flowerpot.
Even the shape is reminiscent of the bottom of a flower-pot, which is a common vessel for burning thermite (relatively heat resistant, at least not melting). After chipping away the cracked piot you get something like this:
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Crazy Contrails from LAX Ground Stop
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6A-Cw8jVBk
I looked up earlier today, and I noticed these really unusual contrails. There were curves, and circles, with trails going horizon to horizon. It was very impressive, and I'm sure the chemtrail folk were thinking the worst.
So, I immediately hopped on FlightRadar24 to try to figure out what was going on. I quickly narrowed it down to Alaskan flight 2862 from Everett in Washington to Los Angeles. For some reason it flew a couple of 360s over Sacramento.
But that wasn't all. I zoomed out a bit to make an animation of this happened, and I was rather surprised to see there were SCORES of planes in holding patterns, all of them heading for LAX, and a lot of them at high altitude.
I contacted an ATC friend, and he told me that LAX had a...
I looked up earlier today, and I noticed these really unusual contrails. There were curves, and circles, with trails going horizon to horizon. It was very impressive, and I'm sure the chemtrail folk were thinking the worst.
So, I immediately hopped on FlightRadar24 to try to figure out what was going on. I quickly narrowed it down to Alaskan flight 2862 from Everett in Washington to Los Angeles. For some reason it flew a couple of 360s over Sacramento.
But that wasn't all. I zoomed out a bit to make an animation of this happened, and I was rather surprised to see there were SCORES of planes in holding patterns, all of them heading for LAX, and a lot of them at high altitude.
I contacted an ATC friend, and he told me that LAX had a...
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Solved: MUFON Case 105762 - White Cigar "Following" Plane near Zion Nation Park (United 541)
A pilot looking down and to the left from 40,000 feet saw this white cigar-shaped object seemingly following him, and took a video with his phone.
Lucklily the original file was uploaded to the MUFON database, and it had both a timestamp, and GPS location!Video recording is taken from cockpit at 40000 ft of an object flying at a lower altitude over the terrain. Not sure what it is.
in the vicinity of Zion N, UT, US
Code:
File Modification Date/Time : 2020:01:29 08:00:51-08:00
GPS Coordinates : 37 deg 13' 2.64" N, 113 deg 3' 31.68" W[ATTACH type="full" width="946px" alt="Metabunk...
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Taal Volcano Eruption 2020
(Image source)
Taal is a volcano just 40 miles south of Manilla and is currently spewing large amounts of ash into the air.
The local Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) rapidly raised the alert level to 4, meaning ""a hazardous eruption may happen within hours or days." (Level 5 is reserved for when a hazardous eruption is underway.) There are also warning of a possible Tsunami.
Source: https://twitter.com/phivolcs_dost/status/1216329536536637440
Besides the obvious science and disaster aspect of the eruption, there's the inevitable disinformation. Interestingly, both the PHIVOLCS Twitter account and their web page...
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Plane Shaped "Drone" Caught on Camera. Mead, NE - Cessna Caravan?
https://www.wowt.com/content/news/C...non-spotted-in-Saunders-County-566798651.html
The somewhat shaky video shows a plane-shaped object, and it sounds just like a plane, so I'd guess it's probably a plane. But the reporter, Lileana Pearson, says
And a deputy says at one point "It's a V, it's got a V" - which is an interesting illustration of someone subconsciously inferring a shape from an arrangement of lights."The Drones, which we estimate to be between 4 and 6 feet wide, that were so near overhead that we could actually hear their propellors. ... the mysterious drones that flew less than 100 feet above our heads"
The location is given as "Saunders County, west of Omaha", and "near County Road R, outside of Mead, Nebraska, presumably by the barn shown in the video
Somewhere around here:
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"Mouse" in Space (Frozen Oxygen)
Source: https://youtu.be/l8W19r5m_GU?t=2605
At 43:24 in the above live stream of the SpaceX CRS-19 Launch, something slides around the engine. Someone remarked that this looked a bit like a mouse, and some of the more imaginative conspiracy theorists took this to be evidence that the footage was faked.
The video is shot from two sides, alternating between viewpoints, which makes it difficult to follow exactly what is going on. But it's much clearer if we take just the shots from the "mouse" side, zoom in, and speed them up 10x.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnbSMjFebPk
A real time version of this is here.
Here we see the "mouse" build up at the top...
At 43:24 in the above live stream of the SpaceX CRS-19 Launch, something slides around the engine. Someone remarked that this looked a bit like a mouse, and some of the more imaginative conspiracy theorists took this to be evidence that the footage was faked.
The video is shot from two sides, alternating between viewpoints, which makes it difficult to follow exactly what is going on. But it's much clearer if we take just the shots from the "mouse" side, zoom in, and speed them up 10x.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnbSMjFebPk
A real time version of this is here.
Here we see the "mouse" build up at the top...
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Mysterious drone swarms over Colorado and Nebraska - Chasing Venus?
I think there's a degree of mass hysteria going on here. Yes, there's probably some drones been spotted, but the video evidence is rather sketchy. The image above looks like nothing more than some building lights in the distance. There are a few other shots in the NBC video:
The strange lights began appearing in the night sky a week before Christmas.
A formation of unidentified drones, some in groups of 30, have been reported flying high above a corner of rural northeast Colorado and western Nebraska, usually between 7 and 10 p.m. By some accounts, the drones have wingspans of 6 feet or more.
This one (above) shows what looks like the moon and six lights. But several of them are on a low...
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"UFO" Sighting over Downtown San Diego Freeway [DARPA Balloon]
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czCfqZrWgio
I first saw the above video (dated Oct 22, 2019) via a low-resolution crop re-post on one of the UFO sites, where it looked even less identifiable.
While it was unfortunately filmed in portrait mode, it was still a 4K video, so I downloaded that and zoomed in:
Looks like an advertising blimp, but with an odd white panel below it. THe original video said "San Diego", so I did a search for tethered blimps in San Diego:
Bingo! There's a tethered blimp over San Diego, with a white panel type thing underneath it. Here's some local news video:
https://www.kusi.com/federal-agency-to-conduct-urban-drone-tracking-system-testing-through-friday/...
I first saw the above video (dated Oct 22, 2019) via a low-resolution crop re-post on one of the UFO sites, where it looked even less identifiable.
While it was unfortunately filmed in portrait mode, it was still a 4K video, so I downloaded that and zoomed in:
Looks like an advertising blimp, but with an odd white panel below it. THe original video said "San Diego", so I did a search for tethered blimps in San Diego:
Bingo! There's a tethered blimp over San Diego, with a white panel type thing underneath it. Here's some local news video:
https://www.kusi.com/federal-agency-to-conduct-urban-drone-tracking-system-testing-through-friday/...
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