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I saw something strange today; I guess it's normal, but I've been spooked these last few days because of this and similar threads on FR. I was driving north in Tennessee on I65 from Chattanooga: the sky was fairly clear and blue. Suddenly, I noticed a shaft of "darkness" pointed from south-southwest to north-northeast, coming from the direction of the sun and seeming to cut across the horizon; not touching the ground, but going off past the earth before reaching it. What was odd is that this darkness was cutting through otherwise blue sky. It appeared to be about three "contrails" in width. It gradually faded away, but it seemed way too sharp and linear to be a smoke trail.