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Old 01-07-2013, 01:55 PM
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Originally Posted by koputai View Post
Probably much higher than 5000ft, 5000ft is pretty low.

It was possibly the contrail from an airliner that had passed over, and the contrail was being lit by earth or sky glow.

Which town was it over?

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Jason.
It was over the little town of Marian.

Thanks for the reply guys. I like the contrail idea but it doesn't feel right for two reasons.

When it moved across I had a better sense of its height and I don't guess it was at a commercial jet altitude. I see the contrails for the jets coming back from Cains in the afternoons on the drive home from work and those contrails are very high indeed.

But the main reason I don't think it was a contrail is because it was just too straight. It was light beam straight. I mean it looked like a beam of light with two distinct dead straight edges.

This is the closest picture of a light beam that I have been able to find on the web. It looked quite similar to the left beam in this photo. Same colour, same transparency and as straight with defined edges. Horizontal not vertical.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ps2031ddf2.jpg

Just reading that back it's sounds a little nuts now.
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