Photo courtesy Beau B. Hopkins

Numerous LoCO readers have sent in images of their vantage point of today’s head scratch-worthy aerial U-turn. What was that? Did a weary chemtrail pilot suddenly realize, “Gah, I can’t go through with this.”? Or is there a real explanation?

We reached out to Emily Jacobs, program director with the Humboldt County Aviation Division and the woman with answers to all our dumb sky questions. “Air traffic control said it was either a test flight or military training,” Jacobs messaged us back.

So there you go.