just what is in this video ?

seems to be 2 seperate objects

the 2nd is the aircraft in question

though the 1st seem equally intrigueing to me

On 16 November 1998, a camcorder video was taken of a mysterious "fireball" in the sky. While this was very interesting, what was even more amazing was the aircraft which was seen shortly after flying at very high speed producing the mysterious "donuts-on-a-rope" contrails. Does this video, which is currently undergoing intense study at JPL, show the mysterious Aurora spyplane? (Download, 1.5Mb here).

http://www.firstscience.com/site/articles/aurora.asp