Compressed camera zoom, angle, and wind all combined to give that look.
I live in the Albuquerque area. Just this last Saturday, I was driving around and watching the skies (and the road). To my east were the Sandia Mountains. They top out just over 10,000 feet. We were getting winds to the east of the mountains, but west was fairly calm.
Just above the mountains, there was a contrail from a west-bound jet. Given the winds from the weather east of the mountains, the contrail was spreading more rapidly than normal, and the effect was to give it a cork-screw look. I wish I'd had a camera with me.