There’s more on Archibald McIndoe and the Guinea Pig Club over at the BBC.

A noteworthy moment in social media history:

A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight’s planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran).

The folks at Twitter/NTT were initially reluctant to back off from the scheduled down time but phone calls and the #nomaintenance hashtag apparently pushed them in the right direction.

This is the second time this type of event has been reported by a commercial pilot in this area. The latest occurred on Friday:

A pilot reported to the Federal Aviation Administration that at about 8:15 p.m. Friday, an object passed within 150 feet beneath the aircraft, sheriff’s officials said.

The aircraft was near the southern edge of the county, flying at about 13,000 feet, officials said.

“The pilot, from what we understand, was former military. He was able to get the coordinates down real quick,” said Cpl. Hugh Bishop with the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department.

13,000 feet is definitely an altitude within reach of a high-powered model rocket but flights to that kind of altitude are far from common. If there’s someone in the area with the hardware and experience to build that kind of rocket investigators should be able to locate and interview them relatively quickly.