High Speed High Altitude Aircraft

Around 6:15 pm HST, I saw a contrail as I stepped out. It was coming out of the NE. Both seem unusual to me. We don’t have too many contrails in Hawaiian skies. And a high flyer at high speed from that direction seemed unusual.

It passed overhead and crossed about 2/3 of the sky in seconds. No sonic boom.

As it passed overhead, the late afternoon sun made it more visible, even though it was a speck. It was triangular or plane shaped, and the light seemed to show the exhaust making its thrust.

Any ideas?

IMG_2699 by Hanzo posted Jul 22, 2024 at 19:37

 

Could have been a rocket. But that would be a highly irregular but still plausible retrograde orbit.
If it was above 70,000ft the thud would only be detectable with seismic equipment.

 

I've got a FlightRadar app on my phone. It's kinda handy for IDing what's above my head.

 

I don’t know. It did not look like a rocket. Although it looked like three stages of flight. Big contrail first stage, small contrail second stage with higher speed and third stage with no contrail and even higher speed.

 

Cool

 

Normal Chem-trail drone plane @ 65-72K feet .
See them weekly to kill Canada's bread bowl
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That works on certain aircraft , not mine or MIL or the chem layers

 

I was wondering if it was part of RIMPAC. Bear said it would be funner if it was aliens. I replied, “Not if they ask to see our leader.”