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The kinematics and location of complex WD do give us some clues as to its origin. We now know that Complex WD is inside the solar circle toward the fourth quadrant; along the line of sight to USNO-A0600-15865535, if we take a maximal distance to Complex WD of 5.2 kpc it sits above a portion of the disk moving at -30 km/s LSR. Complex WD is therefore strongly not in corotation with the disk. This is in rather stark contrast with other HVCs; a simplified model of HVCs with known distances found that they rotated with the disk at 77 km/s -- slower than Galactic rotation, but with the same sense.   One possibility is that Complex WD is simply a wayward accreting cloud. It could  A distance of 5 kpc puts this part of the WD complex above the molecular ring, but with a significantly offset velocity.