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This happened to me once when I was probably 7 or 8 years old... it stuck with me, but I always thought I was maybe seeing things or was just to overdosed on sci-fi for that day, but it happened again a few weeks ago and now it has me wondering if anyone else has seen this happening as well. What I'm talking about is disappearing airplanes. I was out on a dirt/farm road just East of my home in Fort Collins, Colorado driving out to a public land area to give my two dogs a run. It was a clear day, very few clouds in the sky and I looked up into the sky and and say an airplane out to the West leaving a con trail. I really paid it no special attention and turned back to watching the road. Now just a few moments later I looked back up into the Westward sky and found the con trail again and followed it back to the plane that was leaving it, however when I did... there was no plane... just a very faint circle of exhaust/smoke i don't know what where the con trail had ended. I didn't see any smoking debris falling... there were no reports of planes crashing that day... where did it go? As I mention earlier I had seen something similar to this when I was younger when I was outside playing at my house in Paonia, Colorado... and while I thought it was kind of cool back then... I really didn't pay it much attention, but I do remember the instance. Now that I have seen it again... I'm curious. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Is it just the wind blowing the con trail away? It wasn't like I looked at the airplane and the con trail then came back to it 5 minutes later... it was literally maybe 30-40 seconds tops... and the plane had vanished... and an abruptly cut off con trail. Ideas?
 
Contrails form high in the sky by fast moving jets that at that distance can blend into the sky. I know this because I've been watching airplanes ever since I was a kid and make a point of having binoculars hand. Several times I've observed exactly the kind of thing you describe. The plane seems to vanish, but when the binoculars are on it, sure enough there it is, blending into the distant atmospheric haze. On the other hand there's the kind of vanishing that Christopher O'Brien observed while he was looking through binoculars at a cargo plane at much closer range. That's much more difficult to explain.
 
A documentary worth watching. Pretty obvious from the get-go that the glacier had swallowed up the wreckage and spat part of it back out. And its not unusual for a healthy aircraft to crash due to pilot error or miscalculation. The interesting wild card was the jet stream.

The only strange aircraft sighting I can remember: On a stopover during a trip through the Colorado Rockies when I was a child--mid 60's perhaps?--I recall gazing up at a break in the clouds, catching a momentary glimpse of an aircraft at relatively low altitude and thinking to myself "what a strange looking black airplane". This would not be hard to explain in terms of the short duration of the sighting, unusual lighting, or something being flown by the military at that time.
 
boomerang said:
A documentary worth watching. Pretty obvious from the get-go that the glacier had swallowed up the wreckage and spat part of it back out. And its not unusual for a healthy aircraft to crash due to pilot error or miscalculation. The interesting wild card was the jet stream.

The only strange aircraft sighting I can remember: On a stopover during a trip through the Colorado Rockies when I was a child--mid 60's perhaps?--I recall gazing up at a break in the clouds, catching a momentary glimpse of an aircraft at relatively low altitude and thinking to myself "what a strange looking black airplane". This would not be hard to explain in terms of the short duration of the sighting, unusual lighting, or something being flown by the military at that time.
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Yes, if a documentary can hold my attention for longer than about 12 minutes, it's usually pretty good. I also had a feeling that it would all pan out somehow as navigational error, but it was still intriguing, and it had that bit about UFOs being a possible cause, plus the mysterious STENDEC which ended up as the title of a magazine, along with the intrigue of the King's Messenger and diamond courier. So there was some cool trivia there. Too bad it's so remote, or it might be worthwhile doing a little scavenging for the lost diamonds and the historic message book. It would be an interesting adventure. Imagine going all the way there and finding them and then having to smuggle them out of the country without being caught :cool: .
 
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