High Altitude Vapour Trails over Melbourne

[VH-Cheer Up]

This afternoon 9 October around 15:32 AEDST there was a very fast aircraft at high altitude over Melbourne Eastern suburbs heading approx ESE.

Traversed approx 90degrees of arc in around 15 seconds.

Anyone know what it was?

Is there a website somewhere where similar sightings can be identified?

[compressor stall]

Chemtrails. There's an election coming up.

[genxfrog]

Usain Bolt going home maybe?

[compressor stall]

As you imply there was a vapor trail so it can't be the ISS, but by coincidence, the ISS was exactly 20 km due south of Wilson's Prom 8 mins later at 15:40:53 :8

Just at that point, it was 439.37 km up and dawdling along at 27509.63 km/h

[Ejector]

It's just a US drone matey, do not worry, it is there to protect you :ok:

[Flying Binghi]

...Is there a website somewhere where similar sightings can be identified?...



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[VH-Cheer Up]

I should have known better than to ask I suppose.

[Marvin Martian]

Martians..... on their way to get a better view of Venus...

[Ixixly]

Don't you mean a better view of urANUS? :}

[TWOTBAGS]

Swamp gas from a weather balloon reflecting off of Venus.....????:E

[TWT]

I just had a look on WebTrak | Airservices (http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/aircraftnoise/webtrak/)

and dialled up the appropriate date and time but could not see anything there that fits your description.I'm not saying it wasn't there,just that it doesn't seem to have been recorded.

[Subversive1]

Webtrack is a noise tracking website, so it doesn't track anything above a certain altitude.

[iPahlot]

Not taking the piss here, but a meteor in daylight may may look similar to that.

Otherwise there have been plenty of military aircraft that have used our airspace, I believe the U2's used to fly around OZ and rumor has it they used have to get clearance to descend back in to class A :E

[Trojan1981]

Guys, sure there are UAVs and other secret squirrel stuff in our airspace, but you would be surprised how high an F/A-18 can fly. Also, vapour trails only occur at a certain altitude/temp range, and disappear as you go higher. Being relatively small, a Hornet at around 25,000 feet will probably look, from the ground, like a high altitude aircraft leaving a thin trail.

[VH-Cheer Up]

I just had a look on WebTrak | Airservices

and dialled up the appropriate date and time but could not see anything there that fits your description.I'm not saying it wasn't there,just that it doesn't seem to have been recorded.
Yes, I looked there. Doesn't go that high.

I did find an interesting site that shows radar tracks for SE QLD Flight Data for South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales (http://balus.info/) but it seems to be a one-off enthusiast DIY endeavour.

[rjtjrt]

Planefinder (Plane Finder ? Flight Radar | Aircraft Tracker | Live Flight Tracking (http://www.planefinder.net/)) web site can often help.
I have seen similar contrail, and looked it up - it was Emirates Singapore to Auckland, direct flight.

John

[VH-Cheer Up]

Well done rjtjrt - that Plane Finder site is a good get, but it doesn't show the object of my interest.

Given the likely speed involved it must have been something military and perhaps relatively stealthy. I'm obviously wrong about the time - maybe it was 30 or 40 seconds to traverse 90 degrees.

So it was possibly something to do with this: US Navy EA-18G Growler visit - Royal Australian Air Force (http://www.airforce.gov.au/News/US_Navy_EA-18G_Growler_visit/?RAAF-Yz2ZLRRiPyzU6otdOvZ1zJk45tcCzum6) - I wonder if one popped down to East Sale yesterday?

[Critical Reynolds No]

This guy has you covered:
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[VH-Cheer Up]

Love the bongos. What's his point though?

[fujii]

Air New Zealand operates between Perth and NZ.

[Transition Layer]

With the jetstream up to 160kts at the moment, any jet aircraft would appear to be moving very quickly over the ground.

[Bonniciwah]

Sydney to Jo'Burg flights also cut a swathe across the Melbourne sky.

[scam sniffer]

Be careful all you people who live in the Easter suburbs. The Bunny and his mates are watching.:)

[KRUSTY 34]

It may have looked fast, but if it was quicker than 600 kts (altitude/temp depending), methinks you may have heard something as well!

[VH-Cheer Up]

Krusty - I know, that stands to reason. And I do know that sound well. But no, I didn't hear it.

It left a condensation trail that looked like it was a twin, so it could not have been a meteorite.

But seriously, it tracked across the sky like the ISS does some nights. i.e. Very Quickly.

I guess it will remain a mystery. We're obviously not supposed to know.

[Wally Mk2]

.......cheer up VH...........there has to be some mystery left in aviation ya know !:ok:


Wmk2

[911Truth]

Hi
This type of activity is commonplace over the UK and I like you wanted to find out who 'They' are, this link is quite effective, give it a go!
Cloud seeding is going on all the time here under the guise of 'Climate change', a less fancy name is Geo Engineering!!
Regards
Robert
[email protected]
(subject:chemtrails)
Flightradar24.com - Live flight tracker! (http://www.flightradar24.com/)

[911Truth]

Hi
Posted this link to another person in Aus, hope it helps you
Robert:sad:
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[adsyj]

Robert

Tell me you are joking, please please

ARE YOU FREAKIN NUTS

[Desert Flower]

Sounds like Robert is related to some crazy sheila named Lorraine from the US who sent me the links & comment below recently after I said I was interested to know how many people were stupid enough to actually believe this rubbish!

DF.

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If you ever can check out Coast To Coast AM I heard about chemtrails then saw it on my own street

[TEEEJ]

911,

Step away from the conspiracy nonsense.

Contrail Science (http://contrailscience.com)

[18-Wheeler]

Cloud seeding is going on all the time here under the guise of 'Climate change', a less fancy name is Geo Engineering!!

Correct. And it's been going on since the 1950's by both the military and civil companies and has never been secret.
It's often wheeled out by the 'chemtrails' woo-woo's as being an example of the conspiracy evilness being forced onto the public, but in reality it's hardly worth mentioning.
Then there's the problem of no spraying equipment ever being found in any airliner ever, no aircrew or ground crew ever being caught doing it or admitting to doing it, etc.
It's simple fiction that attracts the gullible.

[VH-Cheer Up]

Let me clarify: When I started this thread I wasn't suggesting this was a chemical contrail or any kind of subversive activity.

It was simply a case of what appeared to me to be a very fast aircraft leaving what looked like a very normal vapour trail in the upper atmosphere. It was the speed that intrigued me, not the composition of the trail itself, which I had presumed was the normal condensed water byproduct of burning jet fuel.

It seems now that a very fast-moving jetstream probably contributed to an higher than usual apparent speed as observed from the ground.