catalina missle crisis..

dont make me take my shoe off...but..the really disturbing part of this story is not that it caused alarm about a missle launch, but now that its been determined to be a jet contrail optical illusion, norad has no idea what jet caused it. so there is a large jet headed inland and they dont know where it came from or where it eventually went?  i mean its probably southwest, but dammit, they should know that its southwest for chrissakes!!