Hi! Roger,   
      
   On 09/07/2016 07:42 AM, you wrote:   
      
    PQ>> I have seen one.   
      
    RN> It is overcast here most of the time, so I don't get to see anything   
    RN>  worthwhile except from pictures on the 'net.  I'd like for this rain   
    RN> to go northwest where it will do some good, as in putting out forest   
    RN> fires.  Even on a clear day here, a ship travelling at Mach 6 would   
    RN> only produce a glimpse for anyone happening to look in the right   
    RN> direction.  It would be like a radar blip.   
      
   It's basically the same here, being in the sub-tropics and close to the east   
   coast.  A lot of our weather is generated either off of the Pacific ocean or   
   the hot/dry bush to our west.  So, roughly 50% of the time it's either hot &   
   wet or hot & dusty/smokey.   
      
   OTOH there are times in late autumn or early spring where the weather is   
   postcard perfect.  Cool & dry and the viewing goes to infinity, seemingly.  It   
   was just such an occasion when I saw what could only have been an Aurora-type   
   craft, though I did think for a while I had seen an atmosphere-skipping   
   satellite/space debris during a re-entry (I did read of an instance of such at   
   about that time, a month or so later).   
      
   I should fess up & say that I didn't see the actual craft.  It was much too   
   high, and very fast moving ('gone in 30 seconds').  What I saw was the   
   characteristic 'wake' of an Aurora.  They don't make typical contrails.  (This   
   is something I've since seen on a doco flick of some sort.)  It confirmed what   
   I observed; as if the sky and sea were inverted, and the craft was making a   
   speedy wake through the water.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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