. >> reporter: his son is wcbs medical correspondent consider max gomez. even with his training, he missed the warning signs of alzheimer's until three years ago. >> his bank account had been plundered. essentially his life savings were gone. >> reporter: dr. gomez was not practicing medicine but still had the title of medical director at a clinic. that clinic made him legally responsible for multiple commercial loans and took out mortgages in his name. a girlfriend wrote thousands of dollars in checks against his savings account. and the f.b.i. started investigating after his i.d. was used to file millions of dollars in false medicare claims. >> here he was helpless and being taken advantage of left and right. >> reporter: did you look back and think oh, there was a clue there? >> there was never one big a-ha moment. >> reporter: patients can seem lucid, even as the disease is destroying the brain. >> financial difficulties are a very sensitive way of picking out future problems. >> here's the deposit. >> reporter: the financial services industry realizes

wcbs in new york had the video. >> the hot streak in the sky moving briskly behind. >> reporter: somealso from a jet, similar in situation to which the plane is visible. >> the trail has been lit by the setting sun. >> reporter: one joker suggested that the west coast contrail was iron man. jay leno suggested that we follow the trail of the mystery contrail. >> let's play it backwards and trace where the contrail came from. oh, look, there it is. there it is right there. >> reporter: contrail controversies have happened before and they will happen again so -- ♪ happy trails to you >> reporter: make that contrail. ♪ until we meet again >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn. >>> we have more on what he thinks created the mystery contrail monday night. call investigator of on norian, investigator of the paranormal and time travel and all things unexplained. now he is a radio host that's called "coast to coast a.m." i immediately thought of you when i saw this. what are people saying to you about thi >> not only that this object, whatever it is, don, light up the skies near los angeles, it lit up

wcbs had the video. >> the bizarre glowing streak moving briskly behind the manhattan skyline. >> reportere one in which the plane is visual. >> the trail is lit by the setting sun. >> reporter: one joker suggested that the west coast contrail was iron man.

this started with wcbs station out there. from the helicopter.t at daybreak. the theories advanced so far -- ready for this -- u.s. missile test that failed or was accidental or was real. iranian subbe mrooep test, north korean test, weather balloon, alien landing, u.s. airline flight 808, honolulu to phoenix, optical illusion, contrails, spy satellite launching, planet venus arrives in the morning sky. i think i like that one the best because it's the most poetic. let's look at what some of the press says. pravda, yes, they're still watching. the former soviet watcher. oddly enough she says -- >> whatever it was, they had the u.s. military and department of defense scrambling to what it was and why they knew something with all of the latest technology available to them. they finally decided to go ahead with the airplane story." that is pretty much what happened. all the defense agencies said they don't know what it was. or is, as the case may be. two of agencies, one of which is norad and the north american air defense command and all of these p

wcbs had the video. >> the bizarre glowing streak in the sky. >> reporter: contrail enthusiastics thinkby the setting sun. >> reporter: one joker suggests the west coast contrail was iron man. jay leno suggested we follow the trail of the mystery contrail. >> play it backwards and trace where the contrail came from. oh, there it is. there it is right there. >> reporter: contrail controversies have happened before and they will happen again so -- ♪ happy trails to you >> reporter: make that contrails. ♪ until we meet again >> reporter: jenn mose

wcbs in new york had the video. >> moving briskly behind the manhattan skyline. >> reporter: contrailis also one from a jet, similar in situation to which the plane is visible. >> the trail had been lit by the setting sun. some suggest it was iron man. jay leno suggested we follow the trail of the mystery contrail. >> let's play it backwards and trace where the the contrail came from. see, okay. go all the way back. oh, there it had! there it is right there. >> contrail controversies have happened before and they'll happen again. so -- ♪ happy trails to you >> reporter: make that contrails. ♪ until we meet again >> reporter: jeannie moos, cnn, new york. >> you have to admit, though, that one looks a little unusual the way the plane is climbing out. looked kind of like it was going out. >> i don't know if the conspiracy theorists were convinced it was really just a contrail. >> yeah, those folks who think we were visited by ufos are probably going to say, what's going on? top stories after the break. don't go away. public reaction led to international bans, and whale populations began