Just read on the abc website about it .weird .bom said no cloud there can't explain it .no reply from defense dept yet .

They must have been laying chemtrails

Having just come back from Canberra after 8 years I can say the chem trails there must the nastiest...all day long they fly over between Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne spraying something that must be neuro-depressant over the population to keep them docile.

how else do we explain Canberra productivity and political stupidity.

Now I'm back in Perth I feel heaps more lively... and intelligent

subasurf said..

It was a result of a military exercise.
I was at the beach watching the fighter jets involved in the exercise.

And Suba has it:

www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-13/rottnest-monster-mystery-solved/5258964

[i]A strange S-shaped phenomenon which appeared on the weather bureau radar off the West Australian coast was caused by a military exercise, the Department of Defence has confirmed.[/s]

nebbian said..

subasurf said..



It was a result of a military exercise.

I was at the beach watching the fighter jets involved in the exercise.

And Suba has it:www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-13/rottnest-monster-mystery-solved/5258964[i]A strange S-shaped phenomenon which appeared on the weather bureau radar off the West Australian coast was caused by a military exercise, the Department of Defence has confirmed.[/s]

Sooooooooooo,. chem trails it is then.
Where's Macpweet33 saying "I told you so."
The biggest opportunity he'll ever get and he's blown it.

If it's a military exercise then I'd be guessing it's chaff from a military plane trying to avoid a missile lock.

Doubt they'd be live-firing missiles though. Also chaff is usually dropped and then the plane turns the other way, not usually dropped continuously through 180 degrees (twice!)


Seems unlikely that it's condensation from a jet exhaust, given the abrupt start and stop nature of it, but stranger things have happened in the air due to weird inversion layers and the like.

So I've got nothing

I wouldn't have though that condensation/contrails would be thick enough to have cause a RADAR return. If they were, this would've been seen far more often.