Oval Objects with Trails and Unknown Motion/Sound
Sightings across the USA, UK, and Australia describe oval-shaped objects leaving smoke trails in the sky without providing clear motion or sound details.
Sightings in this pattern (60 shown of 82)
A picture taken of a smoke trail in the sky reveals something else.
Wed Oct 04 2023 19:28:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)On Oct 4th 2023 at around 7:20p est as I was about to clock out for lunch, I noticed what appeared to be a plane's smoke trail. I found this strange as it was dark out and it looked like a fire trail. "I took 2 photos but it was to fast" I initially thought that maybe it was a meteorite or something
One object turns to 3. Moving extremely fast and changing direction. Dispersing into nothing.
Sun Jan 15 2023 17:59:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I was driving north to my home. I look up and see something that looks like a jet leaving behind a strong jet stream. Something about this however, was very attractive. I noticed it moving super fast and so I started recording. Honestly my first thoughts were that I’m exaggerating to myself and shou
It has a white end trail then just burst into black smoke and kept going
Fri Dec 30 2022 16:45:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I was driving and notice what I thought was a jet plane but I suddenly noticed it stopped moving and the. When it restarted moving it then left black smoke in its trail. It’s seemed to act very weird with its movement. Kind of side by side as it spiraled
Object woth vapor trail descending for 5 mins woth 2 jets nearby. Wife & I have pics.
Mon Oct 17 2022 15:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)My wife & I were driving at 3pm in Shawnee, Ks. with me in the passenger seat as we observed an object descending for approx 5 minutes that looked like it had a vapor trail. There were 2 jets nearby at the time of the sighting:
Round silent white traveling west to east flying erratically leaving smoke trail.
Thu Jul 14 2022 20:48:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)Same as summary Rocket launch
Saw something falling from the sky, leaving a smoke trail behind it.
Mon Apr 11 2022 11:33:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I was crossing over a wooden plank walkway suspended over a clearing, on my way home from a early morning fishing trip. when I looked up into the sky and saw what looked to be an object falling from the sky. It seemed to have a smoke trail following it which made me believe it was falling from out o
Flew overhead leaving a trail; then stopped at a fair distance away and stayed stationary in the air
Sat Apr 09 2022 19:46:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I was driving back home with some food and seen what i assumed was an asteroid. It looked like it was on fire and leaving dark smoke. This left a trail through the sky which was directly over my house. The trail could be followed through the sky and ended in a point where a black (dark) Cigar shaped
Small craft with smoke trails and extraordinary maneuvers
Sat Nov 20 2021 17:19:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)While we were driving on the freeway around dusk, we saw several very dark dots and what appeared to be a smoke trail from a very small craft. We obtained approximately one minute of video. The craft maneuvered erratically, at one point going straight vertical, while leaving small trails of dark smo
Two flying objects trailing smoke, suddenly disappear.
Tue Nov 16 2021 15:34:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I saw two flying objects; one trailing white smoke and one trailing black. The objects were both moving in the same direction and looked like they were descending quickly. The second object (trailing black smoke) was far behind the first object, however, it was moving very quickly and soon passed up
Long white trail moving across the sky
Mon Nov 15 2021 17:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)It was a beautiful fall afternoon and at first I thought it was an aircraft dumping fuel. Two planes side by side dumping fuel just didn’t seem right and I couldn’t visually see an aircraft of any kind so I took out my phone and snapped a couple of pictures so I could enlarge them and see the planes
It came from the ocean or from over the ocean
Sat Jun 05 2021 16:58:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)On June 5th, 2021 at 4:58PM, as I was looking out my kitchen window, I watched as a slow-moving object left a trail of smoke straight up, as it went up. It was moving slow enough for me to have time to run and get my cellphone to record as it cleared the top of the buildings and arced to the right.
Lone massive object in the sky
Tue Aug 04 2020 20:19:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)At first I thought it was a plane leaving a trail, but this was going from up to down in direction. At first it left a bit of a trial but then it was just a massive long shape. It looked white from the distance I was at. Sky was completely clear, this was the ONLY object in the sky. WAY bigger than
3 objects moving slowly emitting large dark colored exhaust/ smoke flames over 95 Baltimore
Mon Dec 23 2019 16:35:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)3 objects flying through sky at a slow rate of speed. All were leaving significant smoke trails behind them. Everyone on 95 southbound had no choice but to see them unless you were completely oblivious. 12/23/19 at approx 4:35pm I witnessed for at least 15 minutes until I was in the White Marsh ar
Oval shaped glowing white object leaves a trail of 'smoke' in the sky then vanishes .
Fri Dec 20 2019 06:45:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I observed one oval shaped craft heading easterly in the sky. At first it appeared to be a jet of some sort but it was moving sporadically in the sky in a continued forward motion (up and down). It let behind a trail of ‘smoke’. At this point I was thinking it was some sort of meteorite or maybe a f
I was in a very rural area of the rown of Vanore, TN. I was sleeping in my truck outside next to farmland. Very little light polution (Maybe 5%). Crystal clear night sky, April night. 55° Got out of my truck to evacuate, and looked up and immediated saw this huge vapor-trail from something moving at an insanely high rate of speed. It literally covered the entire sky in about 3 seconds. Huge plume left behind. Very quiet. No sound or lights. No glowing object. I could barely track the path with my head turning to follow it. It zipped acriss the sky THAT FAST! I could however actually see the plume cloud rolling in on itself as it expanded. It too was gone in a minute or two. I've seen shooting stars before, but this seemed much lower and closer to earth. I suppose it could have been a meteor etc...but I didn't see and light or steak of light towards the front. Perhaps I missed that part. All I saw waa the contrail or vapor trail it left behind. And it swelled VERY FAST and was churning very rapidly.
Sun Apr 21 2019 03:30:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)NaN
Corkscrew sort of smoke heading downward but at a slow speed and pausing. It was evening and the smoke/ cloud seemed to be very bright and illuminating it's trail above. Clearly it represented a "?" (In that"?" form) precisely when it was over.
Wed Dec 19 2018 05:38:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)NaN
Falling smoking spiraling Craft Object falling to earth Sunday 10/28/2018 9:43 am, took 5 minutes before disappeared.
Sun Oct 28 2018 09:43:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)On 10/28/2018 at 9:43 am while driving due east on Speedway Blvd., observed a smoking, spiraling downwards falling to earth, smoking craft, could not make out size of craft. watched this vehicle falling event for 5 minutes as we were driving, east bound Speedway, falling Vehicle disappeared behind R
Object falling from the sky with white trail of smoke.
Thu Sep 27 2018 18:50:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)We first noticed a white smoke trail while driving down US Hwy 1 headed north. Then we saw an object falling fast towards the ground.
An object had taken off from my garden, leaving a long vapour trail, rising diagonally in line with the trees.
Sat Aug 25 2018 00:55:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I was sat in my living room with curtains open when I looked up and saw what I thought was two moons. I realised it was Mars behind the moon so went to the door to take a photo on iPad. As I was trying to focus on the moon I was aware of smoke/steam rising under my left arm in a straight, but dia
So, standing on my porch having a smoke, and what i thought was a dark cloud over downtowwn anchorage i noticed it slowly moving but not in a cloud movement, you could see it move to see its length and then its width. was a dark grey object. i grabbed my binoculars. When i returned to get a better look it was farther away and when i looked from what i observered it had a "smokey trail". i have no idea what i saw so if anyone also saw this event id love to read what you saw.
Sun Apr 01 2018 21:30:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)NaN
A horizontal string of 8-10 unidentified objects with a short vapor trail hovered for 5-10 min then thrusted upward rapidly,
Sun Mar 18 2018 09:15:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)On 3/18/18, at approx. 9:15am, my wife and I were traveling eastbound from Modesto, Ca to Oakdale Ca. I noticed an object in the horizon hovering with a short vapor trail. As I focused on the object I then noticed about 8 more similar objects lined up horizontally. I could not tell what the objec
11/11/16 Herod IL 8:30 Strange smoke/vapor trail over the Ohio River. Color white.
Fri Nov 11 2016 08:30:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)A plume of smoke/vapor/trail was seen by 2 witnesses on 11/11/16 looking south from the Herod, IL, Hwy 34, toward the Ohio River. Witnesses did not see if it came from the ground up or sky downward. The trail of white smoke/gas/vapor lasted about 5 min. Never seen anything close to this.
Strange Object Flying over California's northern valley.
Fri Sep 16 2016 19:50:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)Over the night sky around 7:59-8:01 pm facing south I was standing in my driveway smoking a cigarette, when in the sky appeared a oval object that was descending rapidly north-west. It lasted in sight for no more then 3 seconds. It had a orange fiery trail behind it,the frontal part of the descendin
White sphere materializes out of vapor trail.
Thu Jun 16 2016 13:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)Around June 16th, I was out in my backyard talking on the phone to my friend. This is something I do all the time. I live fairly close to the Boise Airport and I see planes coming in all the time. I also watch them fly over all the time on their way to other locations. In my backyard that day as
Falling object in daylight with streak of black smoke trail, turns and travels opposite from Earth along the same route that it fell.
Fri Mar 25 2016 19:30:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)My husband and I were traveling in downtown Paragould heading east bound around 7:30 pm about 30 minutes before sunset. He spotted a black streak of smoke perpendicular to the ground. It looked as if a plane was emitting black smoke and falling straight down from the sky. The shape of the object
Large Object Falling From Nevada Sky
Sun Sep 20 2015 18:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)The shape appeared to be that of an airplane. It was VERY large and had two separate columns of white smoke (?) on each side. It was coming straight down. I watched it until it disappeared behind the mountain, but then saw no sign of explosion or fire.
Vapor trail rising vertically like a rocket, then leveled off at a very high altitude. This appears to be a jet aircraft. As it proceeded South there was another aircraft following close which was not producing a vapor trail.
Wed Mar 18 2015 19:30:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)NaN
Object seen in Tacoma, WA, southern sky with smoke trailing falling from the sky at 13:00 on 09.07.14 Sunday, with no sound heard.
Sun Sep 07 2014 13:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)At 13:00 09.07.15 Sunday, I looked up into the southern sky off of my patio and saw am apparent falling object in the sky with two smoke trails coming from behind it. I took several photos of the unknown object and then video taped the object I witnessed seemingly falling from the sky. The duration
Object moving very slowly with smoke or vapor trailing behind it.
Sun Aug 10 2014 19:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)Last summer in the evening my husband came in from outside and asked me to come look at something in the sky. In the southwestern sky you could see a small object with something trailing behind it. At first we thought it was a flock of geese, but when we looked through binoculars we could see tha
Upside-down "rocket" glides past Shelton WA. UDA
Mon Jul 28 2014 08:15:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)At approx. 8:15am PDT, I was sitting on the front porch having a smoke, and I looked toward the Olympic mountain chain to the west. I quickly spotted a slow-moving object, colored dark grey, and shaped like an old V2 rocket but upside-down. That is, the pointed "nose" was facing down and the "tail
three unidentified smoke trails followed by super fast super high jets.
Wed Jan 15 2014 21:10:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)Was outside with my g/f and saw up in the night sky three smoke trails or plane like cloud trails, however they were very close to the ground unlike a plane or jet. Whatever had passed over had just done so for as we stood and pondered what it could be they slowly faded. And as we turned to go in
Trail leaving object stops in mid-air then vanishes in a puff of smoke, the smoke and trail vanish immediately afterwards
Sun Aug 18 2013 18:23:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I was driving on the Pont Champlain Bridge from Ottawa, Ontario, towards Gatineau, Quebec. The time was 18:23 on August 18, 2013. The sky was crisp clear daylight. While waiting in traffic I noticed a growing trail moving away from the left of the sun which was North-West of the direction my vehi
shape shifting fast craft zigzagging in skies over Everett, WA leaving vapor trails.
Sat Mar 30 2013 18:45:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I was driving at 9500 19th Ave SE, Everett, WA 98208 tonight and I noticed something flying straight up leaving a vapor trail looking south down 19th Ave SE. It was zigzagging back and forth and that is what caught my attention. I had a camera with me that had a high power zoom on it and I took se
Black craft over Grand Canyon/white craft over Beverly Hills
Sat Feb 23 2013 11:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I was returning from a business trip with two colleagues on Alaska Airlines from DC to LA. Over the Grand Canyon, I saw a black craft shaped like a bullet going at an amazing speed in the opposite direction very close to our airplane leaving a trail of thick black smoke behind it. A few minutes l
Huge smoke like trail going across the sky
Thu Nov 08 2012 23:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I was on my way to get my mother from work about 11:00pm downtown in Pueblo, Colorado, on the night of 11/8/12. Heading from North to the South I saw a huge white cloud looking object appear and go across the sky and then disappear, kind of how airplanes leave a trail of smoke, only this was much
Pill shaped dot grows larger and shines, no vapor trail or sound
Tue Sep 25 2012 17:40:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)As I was walking through a parking lot watching the white vapor trails of air plains – I viewed from the south to the east, then looking upward into a clear blue sky- to the east, a small pill shaped dot appeared-it was traveling south to north-from my view right to left- it’s color was a pinkish br
Black mass in anchorage
Wed Jul 25 2012 01:15:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I saw what looked like a circle of a black mass sitting in the sky, i looked at this mass for about a whole 3-5 minutes then i put my feet on the floor to get a closer look out my bedroom window and it was gone. I thought maybe the marijuana and alcohol would have made me see it. but to my knowledg
Space shuttle with chemi-trail head upwards
Thu May 10 2012 18:30:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)Was driving I-85 south by 14th street. Looking west it look a single splotch of isolated chemi-trail. Looking closely it looked kind of like a conventional NASA style space craft traveling up wards. But the trail only went so long and never longer. I think there were four boosters.I even have a cra
object with white puffy smoke.
Tue Apr 03 2012 17:45:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)on 4/3/2012 at around 5:45pm i witnessed an object in the sky traveling at a high rate of speed. it was not as high as an airplane and left a trail of puffy white smoke the tail of the smoke was not that big but it did come to a sharp point. as the car i was in got a briefly obstructed view from a b
Unusual vapor trail over Colorado mountains appeared in altered photo.
Wed Feb 22 2012 08:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)Dear Sir, While traveling from Copper Mountain Ski area to Denver, on interstate 70, I was taking pictures from the car window. In one of the photos that I later altered with photoshop elements a vapor trail appeared. My first thought was that I inadvertently created it with photoshop, but I am not
Unusually short vapor trail
Sat Aug 13 2011 07:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)7:00 am Aug 13th, 2011, 10 miles north of Leavenworth, WA, near Lake Wenatchee and Fish Lake. While out for a morning bike ride to photo graph the meadow at our camp ground in order to capture the morning mist as it sat atop the grass. It was lovely. I noticed a short thick vapor trail moving slowl
It was the vapor trail that made a ring in the sky.
Sun Mar 20 2011 19:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I was standing on my back porch looking west when I look up and seen what I thought was an airplane shooting across the sky but the more I look at it it look like it was going stright up and out of the sight. Now the only thing that really make me notice is I watched an airplane go through the sam
Flying object that changed shape and color over San Bernardino Mountains CA
Thu Mar 10 2011 17:40:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I first noticed the orange color of a vapor trail running east to west that the sun set was reflecting off it with a blue sky background, the jet that made the vapor trail was long gone. The location was just west of Running Springs and a little south of Lake Arrowhead over the San Bernardino Mount
Potential UFO turns 90 degrees, vapor trail follows and makes an L in the sky. UFO entry with splash
Wed Mar 02 2011 06:46:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)March 2, 2011 6:46am MST Globe, Arizona US 60 East bound 33.418739360628 - 110.816420895193 While traveling through Globe Arizona on US 60 eastbound I observed what appeared to be a bright white condensation vapor trail from a jet airliner at the 11 o’clock position East about 070 degrees
Two aircraft looked like they were gonna collide and after passing there were 3 or 4.
Fri Feb 18 2011 17:03:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)At about 5:03pm today Feb 18, 2011, I looked up into the sky facing west and I saw 2 seemingly to me jet aircraft heading towards each other. One was heading east and one was heading west. The aircraft that had 4 vapor trails was heading east. The aircraft that was heading west had 2 vapor trails
We saw a solid yellowish light with a vapor trail silently pass fade then re-appear.
Sat Sep 25 2010 21:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)Sighting Date and approximate time 9/25/2010 at around 9pm My family and I were leaving a beach party near the Oceanside pier when my son said “check out that jet” I looked in the direction and saw what I believed to be a jet with a long bright vapor trail. It was traveling in a fairly stra
It was evening, I was standing outside my townhouse looking at the orange sky. I noticed in the eastern direction what, at first glance, seemed to be a jet or rocket. However, it was not moving as fast, it was remaining completely parallel to the horizon. Plus it did not have the trail of smoke that lasted forever trailing behind it. It seemed to have a light, quickly vanishing tail. I watched it for a few minutes before I ran inside and got my husband to come look. He followed quickly behind me out the door where I pointed the still there object out to him. Approximately 1 full minute passed and the thing disappeared. The light smoke trail followed insuit. I have very strong fewelings that this was no jet nor rocket. I have seen jets and I am 100% positive, this was not a jet or plane. Ok, so. This is literally burned into my brain, why a perfect parallel shot along the horizon, not really high, not really low...but far away from me. Basically if Im on the ! N. Socrum in Lakeland, the thing was probably directly over Lake Mirror. I don't know, but seeing another sighting on your site made me think even harder. Description seems pretty close to what I saw, same time, day, direction??!!
Tue Jul 21 2009 18:15:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)NaN
Disappearance of object and vapor trail
Wed Jul 15 2009 13:30:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)About 13:30 hrs on July 15th 09, I was sitting on my deck reading a book facing south. My upper body was at a 45 degree angle. When I went to turn the page I briefly looked up and saw an object pulling a very large vapor trail behind it. The only reason I started to watch the object was because t
Contrail of short length, abrupt begining and end in clear sky, black smoke, very small object separated from smoke trail, no aparent m
Sat Jun 27 2009 21:15:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)UFO Sighting June 27, 2009 Saturday 9:15 pm 206 722 3000 While taking an evening golf cart ride with his wife Anne, Floyd Coates, while northbound on CR 900 W, Lexington, IN, near the town of Kent, Indiana, observed part of what appeared to be a jet trail fragment in an irregular puffy pattern con
erratic vapor trail accompanied by an explosion was witnessed by me in my SE sky at around 15:10 AST
Mon Dec 29 2008 15:10:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)on Monday, Jan. 29 ((sic December??)), I was snow-shoeing about a mile NE of my home and had turned to face the mountains to my west at the mouth of a small creek that empties into the Tanana River. When to the Southeast and approximately 75 degrees above the horizon I witnessed and erratic vapor
Late-Afternoon Object Not Depositing a Vapor Trail Unlike Several In-Vicinity Airliner Jets
Tue Oct 28 2008 17:55:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)On Tuesday, October 28th, while walking my bike in a large meadow immediately north of I-80 I sighted a single object at about 1755 hours which was traveling westward in a sky with perhaps 35% to 50% broken high-cloud cover. The air temperature at ground level was between 40 to 49 degrees Fahrenhei
Object seen in the sky west of Medford Oregon.
Sun Jul 27 2008 08:30:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I was watching a plane in the sky to the west of medford oregon that had a vapor trail folloowing it. I looked behind the airplane and saw a light that was traveling about the same speed as the plane and same height ,but it did not have a vapor trail. The sun was just setting and it looked like the
Black "condensation" trail stayed at pace with jet for several minutes and then shot forward and all dissipated.
Fri Feb 08 2008 15:30:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)February 8, 2008, mid afternoon--flying from San Diego to Denver. While flying over Arizona, noticed a black trail, sort of a carbon trail as opposed to a condensation trail with the point staying even with the jet in which I was riding. I and my seat mate watched for several minutes as it seeme
a mysterious cloud and 2 smokey streaks
Mon Dec 10 2007 21:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)saw like a gray cloud seem to enter the atmosphere then go in two grey smokey like streaks from one end of the sky to the other seen airplanes make the white ones but this was no planes ever see the movie independance day kinda like that cloud but then went to 2 smokey grey streaks could have been a
Sited 5 exhaust trails, then a cigar shaped UFO appeared in front of them, after a bright flash it disappeared and the trails just stop
Mon Oct 29 2007 17:30:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)This is a photo I shot on Malibu Canyon Rd. in California, taken 10-29-07 about 5:30PM. I was traveling to Eastern California from Malibu Beach and I saw five distinct trails of exhaust or smoke of some sort. This was very strange to me, because there was nothing in front of the exhaust to explain t
Smoke trails from object in sky
Sun Aug 12 2007 10:30:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)I was driving down Hwy 95 heading South to go to the store. We have an airport and the planes fly really low over the Bullhead Parkway to land. Well I happen to look up over the airport and noticed a small object in the sky. It looked like it was a far off plane but what I noticed that made me slow
Black trail (beam) in the sky suddenly appears and disappears
Sun Jun 17 2007 13:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)My girlfriend and I were driving back home on highway 50 going east in Gatineau at about 13:00 and as we got to Montée Paiement exit, we noticed a black trail in the clear blue sky. It suddenly appeared, lasted about 6 seconds and dissappeared after that. It looked similar to white trails made by c
PLane looking object disenegrates over Texas sky.
Thu Apr 05 2007 14:56:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)There was an object of what looked to be a plane traveling from straight above the horizon about 60 degrees traveling towards a zero degree horizon at a high rate of speed. It looked like a plane and a contrail. The object was visiblly moving unevenly as it descended. It broke up and created more wh
Faint Black Trail extending out in front of high altitude aircraft
Sun Mar 18 2007 12:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)Observed two high altitude aircraft with the usual contrails. One aircraft was behind and to the left of the other aircraft; however both were flying in the same westerly direction (290 degree heading, I estimate). Since they were both in the same general area, they caught our eye on this bright cl
Light (object) rising from ground up in corkscrew motion leaving visible trail (see photos)
Sat Dec 16 2006 07:29:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)Sighting and photos by my 38 year old son made from the deck of his home near New Castle,VA, USA. He had intended to photograph the sunrise and captured a series of photos that show an object that he said was rising in a swirling motion (corkscrew) from the ground up.The time on the photos indicate
