This isn’t news. But it is interesting …
The Union Tribune’s Rob Krier spotted a satellite image last week that appears to show a peace symbol forming in the skies west of San Diego. And the sign looks like it is being touched by an upside-down heart.
Jamie Moker, a forecaster at the National Weather Service, says the patterns formed out of the contrails of military aircraft. It wasn’t planned. It simply happened, and an orbiting satellite photographed the anomaly at about 3:30 p.m. on October 28th.
Moker said the biggest contrails were approximately 5 miles wide, “but most of the trails were 1-2 miles wide. The diameter of the peace sign was about 50 miles. The circumference of the peace sign was about 160 miles.”
Krier suggested a headline: “Peace, Love and Understanding.”
Sounds good to us.
I didn’t notice the satellite photo because I was on vacation in Mendocino, where I took this video of gi-normous waves hitting the headlands.
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