Picture 1, taken at 13:30 UTC:
... and Picture 2, taken at 14:00 UTC:
Both of these are with the IR camera. Now -- in Picture 1, there is clearly only one "contrail", while in Picture 2 there is clearly two "contrails". The 2nd "contrail" in Picture 2 is most likely the upper one. It is approximately 181.01 pixels in length. Each pixel is 4km in size, so therefore the length of this "contrail" is approx 724km.
No problem, UNTIL one also realizes that this "contrail" was formed in 30 minutes. Let's assume it took exactly 30 minutes to form this "contrail". This means that the aircraft that created this "contrail" was traveling at 1448 km/hour -- or about 869 mph. Yep -- supersonic.
Sons of bitches.....
There's a lot of additional activity just to the north of these "contrails", also, which is why when I was watching the Weather Channel this morning it caught my eye.
Here's a visible image taken at the same time. The two "contrails" shown above are actually even more clear -- and I've included the activity to the north:
first at 13:30 UTC:
and then at 14:00 UTC:
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