Another unexpected light phenomenon in the sky

The event in this video happened recently on October 2nd 2015. It is the launch of an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station just before sunrise on a Friday morning. The bright giant plume you see trailing behind the rocket is not the exhaust of the rocket itself, yet the formation of the plume is initiated by the precense of the rocket. There is some kind of low temperature atmospheric condition that makes this effect possible.

This type of light phenomenon shows a great resemblance with a corona discharge from a Wartenberg pinwheel, which was mentioned in the concept pages about the Possible Vortex Types. More of these similar phenomena were seen earlier in the skies of Kazakhstan and Severodvinsk. Click on the image above to watch the video, or you can browse through the concept pages (click on 'science', then click on 'concepts') to find the page.

It it very likely that this phenomenon is yet again another vortex type. Yet its location within the transformation sequence has not been determined yet.