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Taken by Tziganya on November 27, 2013 @ 8,000 ft. mountain in Santa Fe, NM.

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This appeared to be suspended in the sky...or there was a cloud obscuring its foundation. Sun was setting to its left (southwest). It was very bright with a large plume of smoke. Taken with cell phone LG. Sorry I do not have a better picture of this. Taken at 16:51 MT and Lasted very briefly

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I have photographed several dozen sunsets with a feature that looks exactly like this. From my personal experience over the last 36 years, this is a condensation trail caused by an aircraft. At certain angles the sunlight reflected gets VERY bright. This effect was photographed in London many years ago and was thought to be the smoke trail of an exploded meteor - however, the lack of sonic booms, plus the photographic evidence (his complete sequence of photos) from another photographer proved it was simply the contrail from a London bound Concord.

Posted by dougr855 2013-12-03 10:23:45

Can`t anybody tell what it might be ?
I`m curious as well...

Posted by seawolf 2013-12-03 05:11:35

i agree with dougr855.

Posted by katia2131975 2013-12-03 16:23:58

Thank you for explanation dougr, it just seemes odd when
the trail is vertical..the clouds under and beside is horisontal.

Posted by seawolf 2013-12-04 10:29:09

if you outline the vertical contrail, lay the outline over the horizontal clouds, remove the cloud portions that are outside the outline, you will now see the horizontal clouds are vertical as well. It is a result of perspective, like parallax. The strip of contrail is seen from near to far and will appear to be vertical. The same is seen as an aircraft leaves a contrail as it approaches your location straight on, it will appear to rise vertically from the horizon. After it passes over and heads away it will appear to be in a slow nose dive.

Posted by dougr855 2013-12-04 13:26:46

Regardless, interesting shot. Thanks for posting!

Posted by blazingbangs 2013-12-05 14:04:58

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