- Jul 25, 2002
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Star Telegram
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Last month my wife & I traveled to Florida on vacation. We stopped at a hotel accross from Weeki Wachee Springs & went out by the pool.
Both of us observed a strange cloud formation that looked like a 'Tube in the Sky' that nearly spaned the diatance from the
North West all the way to the South East.
Holding my hand up at arms length it displaced 3 hands then there was a continuance that looked more like a shadow -
which displaced another 3 hand spans, and returned to the tube cloud appearance for 2 more hand-spans, a total of 8 span lengths.
I estimate that it may have been as long as 75 miles accross the sky.
This formation remained visable for more that 20 minutes, and allowed time to view and monitor it's evolution and demise.
It did not have any structure that I associate with a classic 'Contrail' as would have been made by a jet aircraft.
To me it looked as if it was a horizontal spinning tube in the sky, like a shear wind that spun a tube between upper and lower levels.
you could observe a rotation throughout the length of the tube as you watched it, slow but visably trackable.
(These are referred to as 'Winds Aloft' in the envelope of space launch operations)
My guess is that it was an arial tornado that never rotated into a vertical axis, but stayed in a horizontal plane until it dissapated.
The picture in the Ft. Worth clip is simular in shape, more curved, and much shorter.
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Last month my wife & I traveled to Florida on vacation. We stopped at a hotel accross from Weeki Wachee Springs & went out by the pool.
Both of us observed a strange cloud formation that looked like a 'Tube in the Sky' that nearly spaned the diatance from the
North West all the way to the South East.
Holding my hand up at arms length it displaced 3 hands then there was a continuance that looked more like a shadow -
which displaced another 3 hand spans, and returned to the tube cloud appearance for 2 more hand-spans, a total of 8 span lengths.
I estimate that it may have been as long as 75 miles accross the sky.
This formation remained visable for more that 20 minutes, and allowed time to view and monitor it's evolution and demise.
It did not have any structure that I associate with a classic 'Contrail' as would have been made by a jet aircraft.
To me it looked as if it was a horizontal spinning tube in the sky, like a shear wind that spun a tube between upper and lower levels.
you could observe a rotation throughout the length of the tube as you watched it, slow but visably trackable.
(These are referred to as 'Winds Aloft' in the envelope of space launch operations)
My guess is that it was an arial tornado that never rotated into a vertical axis, but stayed in a horizontal plane until it dissapated.
The picture in the Ft. Worth clip is simular in shape, more curved, and much shorter.
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