Mysterious contrail just a plane

Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told Warren Olney last night that the media can call off the missile search. The mysterious contrail that some surmised resulted from an errant or secret missile launch was mostly likely a jet liner (US Airways Flight 808 from Honolulu to Phoenix, to be precise) flying across the horizon on an unusually clear day. WWLA