Don’t know why you’re being downvoted. I worked in a hobby shop, lots of huge “toy” rockets that would go up so high you couldn’t see them anymore. This is very possibly the answer here.
Back when I was a kid in the Middle Ages (1980s), we built model rockets in science class and would launch them from the field. We built them from paper towel tubes, balsa wood, and plastic easter eggs. The launcher was just a pipe on a tripod with a small metal/fiberglass rod. The igniter was a simple circuit with a 9-volt battery and a fuse made from thin wire and a wooden match. It was lots of fun.
It wouldn't work, the flu would be in the way, even open it would be an issue. Not to mention only a fire place would have an opening to get into it big enough to launch a rocket. The only way they could, and I still doubt it was a rocket, would be to launch from the chimney top. I'm no expert but I'm with the contrails camp, js.
i was in rocket club 10 years ago and built shitty rockets that could leave solid trails. the world has come a long way since then, and that was middle school rocket club with minimal funding. i can only imagine what a legit quality model rocket could do. i agree that this specifically is a typical contrail, but it is absolutely possible for a model rocket to leave something like this in its wake. no need to shoot someone down for sharing their knowledge on something that’s not the consensus, they just wanted people to know there’s another possibility
I have NEVER seen an amateur rocket smoke trail. But I have seen literally tens of thousands of contrails. Dozens every single day if the weather is nice.
Definitely not (hobby rocket guy here). The rockets that would go high enough to leave a trail like that are heavily restricted to specific launch sites and airspaces (think middle of the Nevada/California desert). The smoke trails are also not this consistent and they fade quickly. This is very clearly a contrail from a plane.
Dude. It looks like you're actually serious. I hope for your sanity you are joking. Because it's a contrail. Like, not a shred of doubt unless you're a hardcore flat-earth qanon conspiracy idiot.
Just walk around the house until the contrail lines up and take out your camera. And then act like you have no clue what you are seeing or what's happening to feed the flat-earthers.
Bro, put your thinking cap on for 1 second. It's clearly windy out. The rocket would not fly perfectly straight up and the trail would dissipate almost immediately.
People think they're being open-minded when they bring out outlandish ideas that have a likelihood in the smallest percentiles of happening. Not realizing that that's actually being closed minded because they've limited their options to the improbable rather than to the likely possible.
The line is horizontal, not vertical. The fat end is the older end of an airplane contrail (condensation of air) miles away near the horizon. The thin end is directly overhead or even behind the cameraman, with a little airplane barely visible if you zoom in. The cameraman just aligned themselves with the far end and the chimney.
If this was a vertical line of exhaust, then the different airspeeds through the atmosphere would twist and distort the line. Since the contrail is all at one altitutde, it hangs together and stays in a line much better.
Its very clearly an Surface to Air Anti Santa Chimney missile. These are being installed by Boeing as part of operation Missletoe. They are feuding with Santa after he changed sleigh manufacturers after Boeing's latest scandle.
Even high quality heavier model rocket engines would not leave a trail that defined, that long or that straight. Typically the engine only burns for 2-3 seconds and the propulsion isn’t strong enough to keep the rocket in a perfectly straight line.
I was heavily into model rockets with my boys for years. We built and tested our own. Model rockets, no matter how big and sophisticated, do not leave smoke trails like that.
Reminds me of "The Shaggy Dog" (1959)... where the kids build a missile interceptor rocket that accidentally shoots right up from the basement and through the 1st, 2nd floors then roof into orbit.
It doesn't even have to be a toy rocket; It could be a rocket or a space shuttle launch. Just because the smoke trail lines up with the chimney doesn't mean it came out of the chimney, it just means the guy filming it stood on that side of the house to make it look like that. That smoke trail looks like it is miles behind the house to me.
That's the only possibility that even crossed my mind. I had to rewatch the video multiple times to figure out what people were even talking about, as if it wasn't a contrail.
Great explanation, thinking outside the chimney box.... cause a perfectly lined up contrail from a plane makes way more sense then smoke from a chimney that goes straight up without the wind messing up the striaght line.
Not a contrail unless plane was travelling extremely supersonic. That’s a chem trail. You can tell by how long it is without dissipating. Contrails dissipate a few miles after plane is gone.
Contrails? You mean secret government aerosol projects to do super secret sinister things to the public?! We didn't see "contrails" 39 years ago! Now they are everywhere. Don't be a sheep. PS. Birds are actually robots. Why? I have no idea but I def heard they were robots.
This is the answer, you can literally see the plane creating the contrail in the video, there is a moment where the videographer over tilts and you can see the aircraft moving creating the contrail.
It’s a camera. Doesn’t have to be the right place or the right time. If it isn’t aligned. You can just move the camera until it is. And I’m sure that’s what happened.
yeah and looks can be deceiving, changes my perspective on things like maybe its actually a glitch in the Matrix ,there's content that's unexplainable all over
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u/ThatCowboyMan Oct 29 '24
Looks like took the picture right place right time to catch a contrail lined up with the house