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Care for a bit of a challenge?

Here's a U.F.O. It is something I drew from memory, i.e. something I saw for real, not long ago, and this is a visual reconstruction of my memory that I doodled on photoshop last night for about half an hour. I may have gotten some details wrong or missed some details, perhaps, but still.... this is pretty much how I saw it. And I assure you, I saw it for real, I haven't just made it up. I drew it because I have no other picture of it and I wanted to ask opinions about it. So the challenge I have for you is to find me an explanation for it.

So I challenge you - what is this thing?

Now, when I'm saying it's a U.F.O., the abbreviation only means Unidentified Flying Object - and as you can see the words "alien" and "extraterrestrial" are not present anywhere in it. Simple as this - I saw it, and I don't know what it is, so to me it is a U.F.O. It's not the first one I've seen either, won't be the last one either. However, it's by far the most definite U.F.O. I've seen until now (meaning, the one I saw most clearly and most definitely couldn't tell what it could be), and thus also the most puzzling one. I'm still not saying it's alien. Obviously not every U.F.O. you spot in the sky is alien. It's just stuff you don't recognize as something familiar. However, I am curious by nature and when I see something I don't recognize, I want to know. So If anybody knows what that is, they're more than welcome to tell me. I'll gladly change the title to I.F.O., instead.

Here's the story of when, where and how it happened:

About a month ago, as some of you know, I traveled by plane to Croatia to visit my best friend. It was an indirect flight, so on the way there, I had to change planes at Vienna. While the plane was flying towards the city, as it made a curve to align itself for the landing strip, this bizarre object came into my view through the window. I stared at it for pretty much as long as I could, trying to figure out what it is, pretty much discarding the alien version because of general daytime skepticism, and going for "is that a rocket?" stuff instead. However, the day was cloudy, so I only could see it for a little while before the plane dove into the clouds and they hid it from view. Unfortunately I didn't have time to take a picture, but I seem to have good photographic memory for things that impress me, so I remembered pretty well what it looked like. Only yesterday it occurred to me, why not try to draw it, show it to my watchers and ask people - what do you think that is?
Now, because my arting skills are still not high when it comes to perspective (especially large scale like landscapes and sceneries), I will also describe how I remember it. It was FAR, like, VERY FAR away, not on the horizon, but not much closer than that either. I cannot tell how far exactly because measuring distance by sight from a plane is really not something I can do, especially when there is no ground reference because everything was covered in clouds that day. But I mean, it was far, and yet it still wasn't tiny, in fact it was quite distinct and long - which means whatever it was, it was quite very large. It seemed to have this tail of steam or clouds behind that looked like the trail of a rocket that's been launched. However, it did not move. It just sat still, suspended in midair in the far distance, for as long as I could see it.

Now, quite a few things crossed my mind as I wondered what the Hell it was. For starters I know what it isn't - a natural phenomenon. I think that's quite obvious. I mean, unless this is a single black hair of a truly colossal space tarantula, fallen from the sky and pinned vertically into the ground, I don't see what a natural thing this possibly can be. And I know a lot about Nature. So here are a few other things that I considered as a possible option, instead:

1. Alien something. Well of course it occurred to me, it was so bizarre I couldn't really help it. However, I'd prefer to leave that explanation as a last resort if all other options are exhausted.
2. Rocket being launched. Seemed like the most plausible hypothesis I could think of, however it was kinda way too long and thin for a rocket, not to mention.... black? Rockets are usually white (perhaps this has to do with thermoregulation in open space?). Besides.... it didn't move. When a rocket is launched, it starts from the ground gradually at first, but by the time it is above the clouds it has sped up some. I should have seen it move. I mean, it was far, but not so far as to make its movement invisible. Besides, even if distance did mislead me somehow, a rocket's speed in relevance to its size should still be significant and quite tangible. It wasn't. There was no speed, no motion at all.
3. Military rocket / warhead / torpedo thing being launched. When I saw it, a crazy voice in my head went: "Did a war start this morning without me knowing? Did they start WW3 while I was in the air?" Those weaponry rockets are often dark colored indeed. However, considering the distance, the thing was too huge to be a warhead of any kind, at least much too big for anything I've ever heard of, not to mention still too long and thin, somehow out of proportion. Also, relatively to its size, a warhead should move even faster than a space rocket.... and again, the thing didn't move.
4. Weather control device. You know, like the rockets they shoot at hail clouds to disperse them and prevent damage from hailstorms. However, besides the aforementioned problems with other rocket objects, there is also another thing - it was the end of October. What hailstorms? Not to mention those rockets are much, much smaller, and are supposed to be shot into the clouds, not waaaaay above them in the stratosphere.
5. Meteorological contraption. Now, with those I am not familiar at all. Could be. I've no idea what kind of stuffs they use. Does anybody know? However, to me it still looked quite too big to be just some measurement tool.... However, if you can think of something meteorological - or else, scientific - that looks somewhat like this, let me know.
6. Antenna of some kind. Could be, however, why was it inclined? Why the cloud around it? Not to mention the apparent size of it. If this was part of a building of some kind, it must be a HUGE building, extremely tall, much taller than anything else in the region, and armed with a HUGE antenna. Not plausible.
7. Super-secret military weapon being tested. What, in plain sight, in the vicinity of Vienna, which has one of the major airports of Europe, where planes are guaranteed to take off and land all the time, and in broad daylight? If that was the case, then the super-secret military weapon is certainly not going to remain super-secret for too long. It just seems implausible because let's face it, those guys are obsessed with secrecy. Even if so, the question remains, what the fuck is it?
8. Giant flying cloud sprayer. Because I really have no sensible ideas left. Could be the explanation as to why it was so damn cloudy around Vienna that day. Though I'd rather ascribe it to the weather, simply.
9. Hallucination. Could be? However, I've never had hallucinations before. Or perhaps I do all the time, but I simply don't know it? Hu-hu-huuuu

Joking aside, I don't find any one of the earthly theories I could think of too believable. What really puzzled me about it:
1) It was HUGE. I cannot tell how huge exactly without a reference, but I could tell just how very far away it was, and by the distance I could imagine just how long it really was. LONG. Which is very strange on its own. For one thing, not many things you find in the sky are so huge. Most of them we are perfectly familiar with, they are called planes and rockets - and you can identify them within a glimpse. Not this one. And I mean, what's with the size? At this size even the very proportion of the thing, it being so damn long and so very thin, is a constructional problem. What kind of construction that could be and what could be its purpose?
2) It was perfectly still. Yes, it did seem to have a cloud trail behind, but I couldn't make out any movement, any at all. True that I only saw it for a little while, yet still long enough to see it rise if it was indeed something being launched. Launched rockets don't move at tectonic speed, they're rather fast. I looked intently enough, and I didn't see it move an inch. There's a physical problem with that too - how does a thing so big, which is obviously also solid, float perfectly still in the air?

As a matter of fact.... more and more as I look at my own drawing and memory of it, it makes me think of one type of U.F.O.'s I have read about - something with the shape of a giant black cigar. Does look like it, doesn't it....
But again. If anyone knows what it is, please tell me. I am curious and I never could figure it out. If not.... I might as well be forced to admit it has to be alien - simply because there's nothing else it can be. Though in broad daylight, in the vicinity of one of the major airports in Europe? This is really not the setting in which I'd ever expect to see an alien anything. Even though.... I remember while staring at it in bewilderment, I did cast a glance through the plane, to other passengers, as well. Hardly anyone was looking out the windows. Hardly anyone ever does, do they? Nobody seemed to react, it's like either everyone who spotted it knew what it was, or they never gave it a thought, or.... they didn't see it at all. Is that even possible?

P.S. If I suddenly vanish and this picture mysteriously disappears from the internet, it's probably the men in black and then you'll know it was, indeed, them.

Description
Care for a bit of a challenge?

Here's a U.F.O. It is something I drew from memory, i.e. something I saw for real, not long ago, and this is a visual reconstruction of my memory that I doodled on photoshop last night for about half an hour. I may have gotten some details wrong or missed some details, perhaps, but still.... this is pretty much how I saw it. And I assure you, I saw it for real, I haven't just made it up. I drew it because I have no other picture of it and I wanted to ask opinions about it. So the challenge I have for you is to find me an explanation for it.

So I challenge you - what is this thing?

Now, when I'm saying it's a U.F.O., the abbreviation only means Unidentified Flying Object - and as you can see the words "alien" and "extraterrestrial" are not present anywhere in it. Simple as this - I saw it, and I don't know what it is, so to me it is a U.F.O. It's not the first one I've seen either, won't be the last one either. However, it's by far the most definite U.F.O. I've seen until now (meaning, the one I saw most clearly and most definitely couldn't tell what it could be), and thus also the most puzzling one. I'm still not saying it's alien. Obviously not every U.F.O. you spot in the sky is alien. It's just stuff you don't recognize as something familiar. However, I am curious by nature and when I see something I don't recognize, I want to know. So If anybody knows what that is, they're more than welcome to tell me. I'll gladly change the title to I.F.O., instead.

Here's the story of when, where and how it happened:

About a month ago, as some of you know, I traveled by plane to Croatia to visit my best friend. It was an indirect flight, so on the way there, I had to change planes at Vienna. While the plane was flying towards the city, as it made a curve to align itself for the landing strip, this bizarre object came into my view through the window. I stared at it for pretty much as long as I could, trying to figure out what it is, pretty much discarding the alien version because of general daytime skepticism, and going for "is that a rocket?" stuff instead. However, the day was cloudy, so I only could see it for a little while before the plane dove into the clouds and they hid it from view. Unfortunately I didn't have time to take a picture, but I seem to have good photographic memory for things that impress me, so I remembered pretty well what it looked like. Only yesterday it occurred to me, why not try to draw it, show it to my watchers and ask people - what do you think that is?
Now, because my arting skills are still not high when it comes to perspective (especially large scale like landscapes and sceneries), I will also describe how I remember it. It was FAR, like, VERY FAR away, not on the horizon, but not much closer than that either. I cannot tell how far exactly because measuring distance by sight from a plane is really not something I can do, especially when there is no ground reference because everything was covered in clouds that day. But I mean, it was far, and yet it still wasn't tiny, in fact it was quite distinct and long - which means whatever it was, it was quite very large. It seemed to have this tail of steam or clouds behind that looked like the trail of a rocket that's been launched. However, it did not move. It just sat still, suspended in midair in the far distance, for as long as I could see it.

Now, quite a few things crossed my mind as I wondered what the Hell it was. For starters I know what it isn't - a natural phenomenon. I think that's quite obvious. I mean, unless this is a single black hair of a truly colossal space tarantula, fallen from the sky and pinned vertically into the ground, I don't see what a natural thing this possibly can be. And I know a lot about Nature. So here are a few other things that I considered as a possible option, instead:

1. Alien something. Well of course it occurred to me, it was so bizarre I couldn't really help it. However, I'd prefer to leave that explanation as a last resort if all other options are exhausted.
2. Rocket being launched. Seemed like the most plausible hypothesis I could think of, however it was kinda way too long and thin for a rocket, not to mention.... black? Rockets are usually white (perhaps this has to do with thermoregulation in open space?). Besides.... it didn't move. When a rocket is launched, it starts from the ground gradually at first, but by the time it is above the clouds it has sped up some. I should have seen it move. I mean, it was far, but not so far as to make its movement invisible. Besides, even if distance did mislead me somehow, a rocket's speed in relevance to its size should still be significant and quite tangible. It wasn't. There was no speed, no motion at all.
3. Military rocket / warhead / torpedo thing being launched. When I saw it, a crazy voice in my head went: "Did a war start this morning without me knowing? Did they start WW3 while I was in the air?" Those weaponry rockets are often dark colored indeed. However, considering the distance, the thing was too huge to be a warhead of any kind, at least much too big for anything I've ever heard of, not to mention still too long and thin, somehow out of proportion. Also, relatively to its size, a warhead should move even faster than a space rocket.... and again, the thing didn't move.
4. Weather control device. You know, like the rockets they shoot at hail clouds to disperse them and prevent damage from hailstorms. However, besides the aforementioned problems with other rocket objects, there is also another thing - it was the end of October. What hailstorms? Not to mention those rockets are much, much smaller, and are supposed to be shot into the clouds, not waaaaay above them in the stratosphere.
5. Meteorological contraption. Now, with those I am not familiar at all. Could be. I've no idea what kind of stuffs they use. Does anybody know? However, to me it still looked quite too big to be just some measurement tool.... However, if you can think of something meteorological - or else, scientific - that looks somewhat like this, let me know.
6. Antenna of some kind. Could be, however, why was it inclined? Why the cloud around it? Not to mention the apparent size of it. If this was part of a building of some kind, it must be a HUGE building, extremely tall, much taller than anything else in the region, and armed with a HUGE antenna. Not plausible.
7. Super-secret military weapon being tested. What, in plain sight, in the vicinity of Vienna, which has one of the major airports of Europe, where planes are guaranteed to take off and land all the time, and in broad daylight? If that was the case, then the super-secret military weapon is certainly not going to remain super-secret for too long. It just seems implausible because let's face it, those guys are obsessed with secrecy. Even if so, the question remains, what the fuck is it?
8. Giant flying cloud sprayer. Because I really have no sensible ideas left. Could be the explanation as to why it was so damn cloudy around Vienna that day. Though I'd rather ascribe it to the weather, simply.
9. Hallucination. Could be? However, I've never had hallucinations before. Or perhaps I do all the time, but I simply don't know it? Hu-hu-huuuu

Joking aside, I don't find any one of the earthly theories I could think of too believable. What really puzzled me about it:
1) It was HUGE. I cannot tell how huge exactly without a reference, but I could tell just how very far away it was, and by the distance I could imagine just how long it really was. LONG. Which is very strange on its own. For one thing, not many things you find in the sky are so huge. Most of them we are perfectly familiar with, they are called planes and rockets - and you can identify them within a glimpse. Not this one. And I mean, what's with the size? At this size even the very proportion of the thing, it being so damn long and so very thin, is a constructional problem. What kind of construction that could be and what could be its purpose?
2) It was perfectly still. Yes, it did seem to have a cloud trail behind, but I couldn't make out any movement, any at all. True that I only saw it for a little while, yet still long enough to see it rise if it was indeed something being launched. Launched rockets don't move at tectonic speed, they're rather fast. I looked intently enough, and I didn't see it move an inch. There's a physical problem with that too - how does a thing so big, which is obviously also solid, float perfectly still in the air?

As a matter of fact.... more and more as I look at my own drawing and memory of it, it makes me think of one type of U.F.O.'s I have read about - something with the shape of a giant black cigar. Does look like it, doesn't it....
But again. If anyone knows what it is, please tell me. I am curious and I never could figure it out. If not.... I might as well be forced to admit it has to be alien - simply because there's nothing else it can be. Though in broad daylight, in the vicinity of one of the major airports in Europe? This is really not the setting in which I'd ever expect to see an alien anything. Even though.... I remember while staring at it in bewilderment, I did cast a glance through the plane, to other passengers, as well. Hardly anyone was looking out the windows. Hardly anyone ever does, do they? Nobody seemed to react, it's like either everyone who spotted it knew what it was, or they never gave it a thought, or.... they didn't see it at all. Is that even possible?

P.S. If I suddenly vanish and this picture mysteriously disappears from the internet, it's probably the men in black and then you'll know it was, indeed, them.