Mysteries, Chemtrails, Aerosols :: Mysterious NZ

[Crakka]

Another observation. Working around Central & West Auckland again yesterday and the skies overhead were changing all day long. Mostly we had a lot of normal-looking cloud moving across the sky with lots of patches of blue sky in between. However all over above and throughout this was that weird-looking spreadout webby-looking stuff spreading, moving about and forming all kinds of weird patterns (sorry for the technical terms lol! I ain't no meterologist!). The whole sky just had a very strange look and feel to it for most of the day. There also seemed to be a fair bit of aircraft activity - is it just me being overly observant or have we been hearing/seeing 1 or 2 more aircraft than usual up there on occasion lately?

Anyway about 4.30pmish pulled into a driveway in West Auckland, jumped out of the car and looked at the sky again. Was just thinking how very hazy and "man-made" it was looking by this time in between all the normal clouds. Just as I looked out towards the west coast there it was almost on cue - a big plume just appeared from the back of an aircraft in a gap in the clouds! The camera's always in the car now so grabbed it and began snapping. Quite an impressive plume to the naked eye that looked like a lot of stuff being pumped out as it moved westwards (not anywhere near as impressive in the 4mp photos but still clearly visible). Then we got the classic on-and-off effect as the "spray" seemed to falter and then turn back on a couple of times. Was this the last run of the day with the last drop of "spray" sputtering out in its final spurts? Actually if you follow the trail back you can also just about see where it tracked through the cloud before these photos were taken. Take a look at this sequence & see what you think...

[Crakka]

Just to show how changeable things were the other day here's a photo taken just over an hour later from a location a few miles southwest of the one from where the above pics were taken. It's looking directly to the same position though where the "trail" was seen. Is that cloud pattern the spreading form of the trail seen in the above shots (thicker bit on the left where thickest part of plume earlier seen, a gap and then a thinner trailing off bit)? There were lots of very similar patterns all over the place this day.

Had to take the shot through a sunglass lens for obvious reasons hence wasn't going to originally post this cos I didn't think the quality was good enough. It's also a crop of the original.

[Crakka]

Hopefully you don't think I'm just spamming my own threads now (or this forum in general!) but thought I'd add something related here that won't go out of my head until I put it down. :o A lady I spoke to near where the first shots were taken was very interested that I was taking photos and came over to talk to me about it. She said she'd done a lot of Tuna fishing out off the west coast over the years out from the Manukau Harbour. She said she was really glad to meet someone else who actually took an interest in this stuff as she's seen heaps of trail activity, etc out off the west coast that to her had very often looked a little odd ie. sometimes several lines of trails in one area and just some very odd looking "cloud" phenomena. When she'd brought it up to people she was with in the past she said they'd often laugh it off or not really engage in any meaningful discussion about it. She also mentioned that it "might be very interesting" to talk to some of the commercial or charter fishermen that go out from Onehunga and regularly fish that area outside the Manukau Heads. She says in her experience some of them have some "quite interesting tales to tell" about airborne activity out there at times :wink:

[secondfield]

Well done Crakka! :P

Id almost put money on that last pic being a trail that was in your previous sequence. It doesnt add up how they can start and stop that abruptly ...

There is something 'fishy' (scuse the pun) going on out that way.

Many guy's on boats do have stories to tell about unusual aeiral activity, out west of maukau heads and further north all the way up to kaipara is one of those 'unusal' zones.

Bruce Cathie mentions the area's in his books.

[Melody Anderson]

Looks like we captured Crakka's contrails last Wednesday as well. Taken on the same day out at Maori Bay/Muriwai... 4:30 and 4:30pm, almost due West... Didn't see them being formed though...

[Crakka]

Cheers secondfield :wink: Very nice followup shots too Melody, thanks! What amazing-looking skies that day ay!