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I remember seeing one of those on a night flight from the US to Europe. The pilot pointed it out on the PA and was puzzled as to what it was. It looked like a thin line of clouds illuminated by a super bright moon… except there was no moon that night and it was way higher than where clouds are supposed to be. Color was a silvery white.


Perhaps it was noctilucent clouds? See e.g https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SpaceX_Noctilucent_Clou...


Thanks for the link, I learned something!

But that doesn't fit because it was in winter and in the dead middle of the night, somewhere between Canada and Iceland.




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