Why couldn’t that be the contrail of the US Air flight? The Setting Sun illuminates it. You would think that this is a common phenomenon....
Look up in the sky most any day around 5pm....on a clear day...you’ll see dozens of these. What is different is the angle.
What is different is that a flight heading straight towards the coast leaves a contrail that never makes it to the coast.
I’m inclined to agree with you.
I live under a flight path close to Lake Michigan...I see contrails over my house all day long...Have never seen one that looks like that...
The color is typical of a contrail at sunset but the erratic path and amount of contrail resembles something more like one would see coming out of Cape Canaveral...
Look at the conehead of the trail, it is not an aircraft and if it was routine, why did so many folks report it as “unusual”. It was perhaps a test towards Kwajalin Island? Not sure.
That is a rocket
That is a rocket