by Wondering » Sat Dec 25, 2004 2:11 pm
Here in Las Vegas, it was bitterly cold and the wind was blowing quite strongly. Two days ago, while driving home from work at around 5pm, I saw the oddest contrail (?). It was shaped like the path of a sidewinder snake, zigzag back and forth. It was very thin, even thickness, not vapory and with the setting sun, it glowed gold. As I was looking at it, a plane passed by, making a contrail of its own. That one was the typical vapory thick white trail. I waited, watching to see if its trail would become zigzag shaped from the wind. Nope. It stayed straight and then faded away. The other one was still there and remained in the sky for another 3 minutes. This was near a dry lake bed where they do all kinds of fun stuff like radio control airplanes, test speed records for rocket cars, etc. Anyone have any thoughts?
Here in Las Vegas, it was bitterly cold and the wind was blowing quite strongly. Two days ago, while driving home from work at around 5pm, I saw the oddest contrail (?). It was shaped like the path of a sidewinder snake, zigzag back and forth. It was very thin, even thickness, not vapory and with the setting sun, it glowed gold. As I was looking at it, a plane passed by, making a contrail of its own. That one was the typical vapory thick white trail. I waited, watching to see if its trail would become zigzag shaped from the wind. Nope. It stayed straight and then faded away. The other one was still there and remained in the sky for another 3 minutes. This was near a dry lake bed where they do all kinds of fun stuff like radio control airplanes, test speed records for rocket cars, etc. Anyone have any thoughts?