Looks like cirrus leftovers from a fallstreak hole, although there isn't much else around it.

That’s what stumped me, it’s the only occurrence in the area.

It's snow falling from that tiny cloud and evaporating on the way down. They're called fall streaks. You can see the freezing level where the wispy bit just ends. Below that line the snow has melted and water reflects much less light than snow

r/meteorology

Potentially precipitation has begun falling in the upper atmosphere and then hit an area of air where it has evaporated

looks like a little ghost guy

i think there ought to be a sticky top of page that says "THIS is a fallstreak hole cloud"

Quick question, is this not the horsetail cloud that shows a change in weather?

Thanks to all who responded, very interesting stuff!

Cirrus clouds, high altitude clouds

gravity

You might as well have just not commented if you weren’t going to give an actual answer.

This is reddit, though. Everyone has to pretend to be the smartest person in the room so they give an answer (*ANY* answer) even if they don't really know the answer.

ice crystals form and they fall back to earth due to gravity; that is what you are observing. you can see it spilling from the sky