I was traveling westbound on Bee Caves Road (2244), when I noticed a vertical trail in the sky. I thought this one was a bit odd, as it was vertical - straight up and down with no visible object leading it. I do understand light refraction works and that often what we think we see is most times just our eyes playing tricks on us, but something about this just seemed weird. I continued to glance at the vertical trail as I drove, and then noticed as I got closer to my destination that there was now an object that was moving horizontally across the sky, with the trail coming out behind it. I realized that it would pass me if I didn't park soon and get a picture, so I pulled over and zoomed in as much as my camera would allow. I took 4 rapid fire pictures with my iPhone, and actually stopped taking pictures as it passed over me, and got back in my car because I got a very uneasy feeling. While I was taking the pictures, I was looking directly at the object (not through the phone) and I swear it was changing shapes as it moved across the sky. If I hadn't seen the trail, and the sun hadn't been setting, I don't know that I would have even seen the object, I feel like the sun's light was affecting its perceivable "shape". I got back in my car and proceeded down a driveway, got back out the car and (literally) 20 seconds later, it was gone. The trail was gone. There was no trace of it in the sky. What I saw looked like a small pink/red/orange orb that appeared to morph as it moved from a clam shape, to a cylinder to an oval. Pictures included are labeled in the order they were taken.

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