I’ll tell y’all what the fucking shit I didn’t find on the Internet.
I didn’t find any goddamn trace of a hint of a clue of a mention what route the space shuttle was going to fly from Los Angeles to Sacramento and back today. Neither in the week before the event nor afterward today. (Finding out beforehand would have been nice.) Flying from LA to Sacto, did it fly over the San Joaquin Valley? Did it fly over (or near) Bakersfield? Tehachapi? Fresno? Modesto? Stockton? Livermore/Dublin area?
Or did it just, you know, magically teleport itself all that way without actually passing over points in between? And heading back south, did it fly over San Jose? Santa Cruz? San Luis Obispo? Santa Maria? Santa Barbara? (I did find a few news reports suggesting, ahead of time, that it might fly over San Jose, Santa Cruz, and/or Monterey.)
Was this some super-secret classified information? Was it a top-god-damn-secret? Was there fear of surface-to-air missiles in Lodi? Or did it simply occur to absolutely NOBODY at NASA nor to any reporters that there are, like, people in those areas who would have like to stick their heads out their windows for a peek too? Did not a single shit-for-brains reporter ANYWHERE think to ask? Where were the editors of all the local papers in those towns? (Or did it fly over the east side of the Sierras, where there really is almost nobody?)
All I can find (and I’ve been poking around some) are story after story listing all the landmarks in LA, Sacto, and Bay Area that it buzzed around, and not a single damn hint that it might have actually traversed any points in between.
Maybe the whole Central Valley did fall into the ocean after all.
Are there any SDMB Dopers in any of those forgotten lands who know? Or who maybe even saw the damn phantom?