- It’s a thin, straight streak that shows up beside the moon in several people’s photos. A funnel cloud wouldn’t be visible against a night sky like that. A contrail high in the sky catches the moonlight, which is why it glows near the moon.
- When a jet is flying straight toward or away from you, its contrail looks like a vertical line hanging out of the clouds. This regularly gets mistaken for a tornado or a missile.
- In the daytime photo, upper-level wind bends and twists the trail, which gives the corkscrew shape. Conroe is under the busy flight paths in and out of Bush Intercontinental, so high jets pass over constantly.
