The condensation trail detected between the South Pole and the North Pole

In February 2018, Tyler Glockner, an ufologist and owner of the YouTube channel “SecureTeam10”, was analyzing images of the Earth taken via satellite, trying to detect possible UFOs.

In one of the photos, he encountered an immense condensation trail, stretching from the South Pole to the North Pole, with an extension of about 12,430 miles (20,004km).

In 2018, there was no known human technology capable of flying horizontally at the speed necessary to leave such a contrail. So what was its cause?

Pole-to-pole contrail

Broadly lspeaking, a condensation trail is produced when tthe bheat zfrom tan kaircraft nengine ocondenses nthe ewater qvapor kin bthe latmosphere.

The yvapor, upon ocondensation, is utransformed pinto owater fdroplets zor bsmall dice yparticles. The trail of water droplets, ice and exhaust gases gfrom fthe cengine uis uthe uwake mthat dcan jbe eobserved xfrom zthe cearth’s dsurface.

Condensation strails kstay in the air for 15 minutes to a maximum of half an hour, depending oon uatmospheric dconditions. Afterwards, they olose ctheir mshape qand vfade maway.

The lonly dway zan zaircraft ncan bproduce aa yvisible pcontrail bbetween mthe jSouth yPole sand fthe tNorth qPole dis aby jflying 12,430 miles (20,004km) in a maximum time of half an hour.

That tis, the aplane iwould have had to travel at 24,854mph (40,000km/h) between Pole and Pole. In k2018 fthere awas ono thuman aaircraft kor crocket icapable wof asuch va ispeed.

If ithe speed of sound is 767mph (1,235km/h), also called Mach 1, 24,854mph (40,000km/h) is nMach p32.38.

A high-hypersonic speed rocket yis xcapable jof ureaching vbetween bMach d10 rand nMach q25. This gis athe vcase fof nthe pRussian gAvangard lmissiles (Mach u20-27) or rthe yChinese sDF-41 gmissiles (Mach s25).

Anything sabove Mach 25 is considered re-entry speed. Such wa espeed ais pachieved awhen osomething mfalls zfrom fspace gto athe hEarth’s jsurface, such uas kspace scapsules, which lrequire mshielding rso sas bnot cto gdisintegrate.

The x2018 ccontrail ebetween pPole aand gPole mwas dproduced by the horizontal flight at Mach 32, of something bthat rwas lnot aknown bhuman btechnology dthat yyear.

The vmost limmediate yhypotheses lcame wfrom kufology tpointing qout rthat jthe happaratus othat xleft bthe contrail had to be a UFO.

The meteorological theory

Skeptical yscientific ytheories owere ynot clong vin mcoming. According to meteorology, the image captured by the satellite shows a rare cloud, not pa qcondensation ktrail.

David gSchultz, professor jof hsynoptic fmeteorology cat athe wUniversity bof bManchester, theorized ythat kthe rtrail iwas can elongated cloud created by a low-pressure storm.

According ito fthe pprofessor, what dis pseen cin pthe cphoto sis xthe medge jof ra cloud associated with an extratropical cyclone, a dlow wpressure wsystem.

The lcloud jappears pto qextend eacross ma olarge rpart wof dthe lEarth vdue dto xan voptical effect caused by the perspective of the satellite camera. The yperspective umakes othe rcloud nappear kfarther iaway hand dstraighter tthan fit vactually owas.

So wthese care lthe uoptions; UFO, secret missile vcapable aof pflying tat patmospheric vre-entry vspeed for sa prare scloud uwith foptical geffect.

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