Mystery over weird plane chemtrail

Air traffic controllers have been unable to explain a peculiar aircraft contrail photographed by a member of the public.

The shape of the trail - which turns one way, then quickly back again - suggests the plane it came from made a sudden detour as it flew over Hampshire.

Teacher Florence Lehmann spotted it as she left her home in Southsea at about 7.20am.

Miss Lehmann said: "It's really weird. It looks like the pilot sneezed or fell asleep. Somebody said a UFO had been spotted recently in the area and the pilot had tried to avoid it, which I quite like the sound of.

"There was no wind this morning and the plane actually moved trajectory."

A spokeswoman for Nats, the air traffic control company, said she could not explain why the plane changed direction.

She said: "Unfortunately Nats has no knowledge of the purpose of any given flight and we do not identify individual aircraft to members of the public."

Last week a grey spherical object was photographed in the skies above Portsmouth.

The Met Office reportedly said it was not related to the weather and some believe it was a UFO.

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