at about 6:15 pm local time ACDST thursday 12th during adelaide hills evening bushwalk i observed a very strange small pair of small twisting 'clouds' roughly located halfway between sun and horizon, so wsw direction, there very literally wasnt a single other cloud in the sky in my huge wide vista atop a large hill. at first i thought daytime fireball remnant smoke train! which i have seen once or twice before, and a large number of nightime examples in my long meteor observing period, and it behaved very much like a fireball train, twisting and turning in upper atmosphere winds, it would even disappear on the rolls and reappear when the forward scattering of sunlight came into effect on favourable rotations, I have seen a squillion aircraft contrails, and it was like no other contrail i have seen, it could of been a fuel dump i 'spose, but after reading about this collision i'm intrigued, would a debri cloud been passing over at this time? of course fireballs are of a much lower altitude than these debris, but i'm wondering about a forward scattering scenario with this debri cloud, could be completely unrelated of course!
