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after that of a large area west of los angeles, those replays did not reveal any fast moving unidentified targets. which doesn't completely rule out some kind of secret operation of some kind but it leaves a much wider door open to the idea that this was just a commercial jetliner, martha. martha: this is -- this is what i don't understand, wouldn't we be able to pinpoint which commercial jetliner was with a code line of when this -- with a timeline of when the took plane off? >> good question. there's a lot of air traffic in that area, the faa was consulted. now, according to some experts, the atmospheric conditions and optics can create an optical illusion, monday night's so-called missile launch was compared to an earlier photo showing a jet aircraft and they look very much alike. we can put that comparison up, on the right side of your screen there, the jet con trail -- that's not exactly the one i was expecting, but similar. not quite the same.
this has been confirmed to be the con trail of a jet taken off the gulf coast back in may. now let's put them side by side. you can decide for yourself. the left taken yesterday on the right taken off the gulf coast. that is a jet engine which is why some experts are saying what you see on the left may be with a jet con trail though nobody has come out to confirm that for us yet tonight, shep. >> shepard: it's my understanding that weather can effect those con trails? >> weather plays a big factor because what really helps or hurts these things is humidity and wind. we went back and checked and yesterday off the coast of catalina, it was 84% humidity and the winds were very high for southern california this time of year the reason the winds play a big part is the winds can make that con trail at the base look a lot bigger than it normally would and the humidity gives it a lot more hep. the particles kind of condense.