# Strange smoke trails in the sky this morning **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 2, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326 "2016-06-02T17:23:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/1 "2016-06-02T17:23:13Z")
When I walked out of the house to head to the gym just before 5AM, I saw these weird and wonderful trails in the sky: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/7616/27143886710_7e8d967626_b.jpg "IMG\_3682") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/27143886710/in/dateposted-public/) Anyone else see them? I haven’t heard any conclusive report about what it was, but people have reported hearing explosions, so possibly a meteor. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/2 "2016-06-02T17:57:51Z")
Not sure what it was, but the news sites have some security camera and dash cam footage. Whatever it was, it was bright! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/3 "2016-06-02T17:57:54Z")
This is what happens when you hire a meth head to do the morning chemtrails run. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/4 "2016-06-02T17:59:04Z")
Lousy drunk aliens… ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/5 "2016-06-02T18:02:01Z")
… glitch in the Matrix… ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/6 "2016-06-02T18:02:16Z")
I saw this picture while surfing the net earlier today. The contrails are not dissipated enough for all that looping to just be caused by wind. Maybe a couple fighter jets training for a dog fight? I don’t know that an exploding meteor’s fragments would cause so many loops. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/7 "2016-06-02T18:17:10Z")
Looking around a little more, there are security cams and other vids coming in. And it does indeed seem to be a meteor/bolide, and a bright one. > **[NASA: Asteroid entered atmosphere over Arizona](https://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/what-was-that-bright-light-streaks-across-sky)** > > The first reports came in right around 4 a.m. from around the Valley. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/8 "2016-06-02T18:46:48Z")
Very cool! Thanks, Dallas. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/9 "2016-06-02T19:17:11Z")
I popped this up while “Dark Eyes” by an electroswing band was playing in the background. Like, y’know, mind-blowing synergism! ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/10 "2016-06-03T00:52:09Z")
I think it’s that fog that seeps in through the cheap weather stripping and turns you inside-out. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/11 "2016-06-03T01:40:42Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > I think it’s that fog that seeps in through the cheap weather stripping and turns you inside-out. What, Stephen King shit? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/12 "2016-06-03T11:29:22Z")
[Estimated force of the explosion : 10KT](http://spaceweather.com) ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/13 "2016-06-03T11:40:16Z")
So any explanation for why the smoke trail was all loopy? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/14 "2016-06-03T14:24:44Z")
You are looking up through many miles of smoke trail. It only appears to be on one plane. The shifting winds move the trail different directions at various altitudes. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/15 "2016-06-03T14:40:08Z")
My wife heard the sonic boom it made. I slept right through it. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/16 "2016-06-03T14:56:00Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > You are looking up through many miles of smoke trail. > It only appears to be on one plane. > The shifting winds move the trail different directions at various altitudes. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-smoke-trails-in-the-sky-this-morning/756326/17 "2016-06-03T19:49:49Z")
Some bored sky writer doodling between jobs…