The mighty Ceeb can continue to ignore the obvious: there were no time-traveling missiles from France, there guys.
NTV has the truth: a fairly good video of at least one twin-engined commercial jet – it might have been an Airbus A320 - cruising along and streaming out the contrails looking almost exactly the like the one in the photo displayed by CBC.
All that does is raise more questions about the CBC photo itself, but there can be no mistaking what was flying in the skies over Harbour Mille last Monday. It was a flock of three aircraft – likely all commercial jets - flying the usual route for aircraft coming from from Halifax and the eastern seaboard, potentially into St. John’s.
And for all those intrepid reporters busily scurrying around like this was a national security issue, here’s a simple and fairly obvious question. Since even a missile would have turned up on radar, did anyone think to call those lovely folks at the Gander control tower to see what might have been flying along the south coast last Monday?
Beuhler?
Beuhler?
Didn’t think so.
Next time, though, people might go for the more obvious answer rather than leaping to all sorts of speculation and rumour for their answers.
After all, when you hear hoof-beats in this part of the world it is more sensible to think “horses” than an Eohippus that escaped from that mysterious experimental farm on the Bauline Line run by some fellow Hammond.
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