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Last night at about 6:15 pm, I noticed this super bright pink line in the sky. It was almost exactly N<->S. I’m in the Space Coast, Florida if that helps. I’ve never seen plane contrails look like this. Weird thing is that it almost looked like if the area in the center of the line was ionized, plasma-like. Unfortunately the camera didn’t pick up how vivid the line was. In another picture it almost seems like the line makes a 90 degree turn due east at the northern tip of it.

I thought maybe a meteor since there was that Taurid shower a few days but I don’t know if meteors fall N to S and if they ionize clouds like that. I don’t know if that actually is even ionization. We also have a lot of aerospace research companies here so who knows if it could be that?

Hoping someone can chime in with what it might be.

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[–] TammyTobacco@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Probably a plane that disrupted the clouds and the sunset is reflecting off them different than the rest.

[–] nnullzz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m gonna check out flight paths from yesterday to see if that’s the case. I’m real close to an airport so I wouldn’t doubt that to be the case. It’s more the color it was that threw me off.

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's dead. The aliens took issue and doubled back.

[–] nnullzz@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not dead but my uh.. orifices are not ok.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

You signed the forms, you knew what you were agreeing to

[–] nnullzz@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Been busy but I tried to search on my phone and all I could find was live flight tracking data. Hoping to check on my laptop later tonight.

The evidence I'd add to that is it seems to start in the middle of a section of clouds, and then slowly change the width of the disturbed area. If the line makes that hard 90 degree turn that OP mentioned, it could be the final descent pattern of a plane landing at an airport.