Report #5
Location: Waterloo, Iowa
Date: October 2002
"I live in Waterloo, Iowa, not far from SAC base in Omaha, NE. Almost weekly for many months now, we have been observing the "doughnut on a rope" contrails in the sky. They usually occur on the weekends later in the day and early evening.
The first time I noticed them was in June. We had traveled north to Waverly, Iowa for an early dinner and on the way home, around 7pm, I noticed a strange contrail in the western sky. It took a few minutes to dawn on me what it might be. An Aurora!
I had seen a tv program on Discovery Channel back in '97 that was all about the Aurora and I distinctly remember the contrail. We started paying more attention to contrails after that and sure enough almost every weekend, (Sat. afternoon, early evening) while sitting out on our back patio, right overhead, those contrails. I have never been able to spot the plane making them, but from now on I will be ready with the binoculars just in case!"
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