A Cloud?

[guohua]

What is it?
No one really knows, but a Cloud is what some are calling it.
I would sat, Space Junk Falling or a UFO crashing to earth.
Have anyone here ever seen a cloud like this?

A large worm-like cloud materialized this week over Alaska’s Lazy Mountain, igniting conspiracy theories and prompting an investigation — and explanation — from Alaska State Troopers.

It happened around 7 a.m. Thursday, April 7, and photos show the streak of smoke resembled everything from a falling meteor to a burning aircraft.
Social media explanations included talk of an eruption, a crashing UFO and a Russian weapon linked to the ongoing conflict over Ukraine.
“We saw this on the way to school this morning as well. Very eerie!” Christy Hronkin Swift wrote on the Palmer Alaska Buzz Facebook page.
“Looks like a meteor. I wonder where it landed,” Cassi Joi posted.
“Could it be a satellite? It’s so strange,” Shannon Del Vecchio Watson said.

“No wings,” Susie Kuke Martin noted.

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[/color]It appeared the mountain was erupting from some vantage points.

Rumors of a possible plane crash eventually caught the attention of Alaska State Troopers and the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center.
“There have been no reports of overdue aircraft or ELT activations indicating an aircraft crash. A rescue team on a helicopter flew a mission around the Lazy Mountain area this morning and located nothing suspicious and there were no signs of crashed aircraft,” Alaska State Troopers reported in a release.

Instead, officials offered a rather simple explanation for the jaw-dropping sight.
“Further investigation revealed that a large commercial jet was flying in that area around the time that the photos and video were taken. The aircraft was contacted and reported normal flight operations on its way to JFK airport in New York. Troopers believe that the photos and videos showed a contrail from the commercial jet combined with the rising sun which together caused the unique atmospheric sight.”

Commenters on social media immediately began trying to poke holes in that explanation, with some suggesting a government cover up of an UFO crash and/or secret weapons testing.

“The old swamp gas reflecting light from Venus story,” one man wrote.

“Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy could have come up with a better story than this,” another said.
But Eddie Zingone, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Anchorage, told the Anchorage Daily News that his best guess is “it was just a very vivid contrail.”
“First of all, how thick it is on one side — the bottom left part is much thicker, which is what we’d expect,” he told the newspaper.

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[hounddoghowlie]

What is it?
No one really knows, but a Cloud is what some are calling it.
I would sat, Space Junk Falling or a UFO crashing to earth.
Have anyone here ever seen a cloud like this?

A large worm-like cloud materialized this week over Alaska’s Lazy Mountain, igniting conspiracy theories and prompting an investigation — and explanation — from Alaska State Troopers.

It happened around 7 a.m. Thursday, April 7, and photos show the streak of smoke resembled everything from a falling meteor to a burning aircraft.
Social media explanations included talk of an eruption, a crashing UFO and a Russian weapon linked to the ongoing conflict over Ukraine.
“We saw this on the way to school this morning as well. Very eerie!” Christy Hronkin Swift wrote on the Palmer Alaska Buzz Facebook page.
“Looks like a meteor. I wonder where it landed,” Cassi Joi posted.
“Could it be a satellite? It’s so strange,” Shannon Del Vecchio Watson said.

“No wings,” Susie Kuke Martin noted.

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[/color]It appeared the mountain was erupting from some vantage points.

Rumors of a possible plane crash eventually caught the attention of Alaska State Troopers and the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center.
“There have been no reports of overdue aircraft or ELT activations indicating an aircraft crash. A rescue team on a helicopter flew a mission around the Lazy Mountain area this morning and located nothing suspicious and there were no signs of crashed aircraft,” Alaska State Troopers reported in a release.

Instead, officials offered a rather simple explanation for the jaw-dropping sight.
“Further investigation revealed that a large commercial jet was flying in that area around the time that the photos and video were taken. The aircraft was contacted and reported normal flight operations on its way to JFK airport in New York. Troopers believe that the photos and videos showed a contrail from the commercial jet combined with the rising sun which together caused the unique atmospheric sight.”

Commenters on social media immediately began trying to poke holes in that explanation, with some suggesting a government cover up of an UFO crash and/or secret weapons testing.

“The old swamp gas reflecting light from Venus story,” one man wrote.

“Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy could have come up with a better story than this,” another said.
But Eddie Zingone, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Anchorage, told the Anchorage Daily News that his best guess is “it was just a very vivid contrail.”
“First of all, how thick it is on one side — the bottom left part is much thicker, which is what we’d expect,” he told the newspaper.

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at first looking at it I thought it's one of the long skinny high altitude balloons because of the way it tampers down at the end. tried to find a picture of what i was thinking of and can't find a match.

i watched the video that the source link links to about it being a contrail. maybe so especially if you look at the other picture posted there of it.
i also noticed that the pictures in the OP have something shinny at the end of it.

Here are some screen shots of that and from the link in your link.

These from the OP

 

 

This from the link in the source link

This one is from a high school in in Canada, i guess it's on the other side of the mountain.



and here is the video from that link




and that link

A ‘unique atmospheric sight’ that streaked across the sky over Palmer draws speculation, and a simple explanation

i'm thinking since there's something shinny at the end, it's either a contrail or a balloon

now that i've thought about and looked at it some more it can't be a balloon, maybe a contrail.

[guohua]

It looked to me like something Burning or on fire like a White Phosphorus burning, very hot.
I just don't think it is a cloud.

It could very possibly be a large piece of Space Junk.

Thanks for your reply.