Hi Trailspotter,
The cloud formations I photographed started from 8 am to 10 am, if you have access to satellite images from that time, it would confirm the presence of a lenticular cloud. My images are time stamped and I discussed this earlier with Deirdre, however, my camera was on Denver time, so the time stamp shows 9 am instead of 8 am. I have uploaded dozens of photos and screen shots of multiple frames that confirm the process of a lenticular cloud that compresses, rotates, sends out a tube formation and opens an area where the patterns appeared for two hours. You have dozens of images that show this.
As for the vapor trail, I witnessed a fast moving object and it coincides perfectly with the vapor trail it left. We have discussed at length the possibility that the vapor trail could be the shadow of a contrail and I think I provided arguments to discount that idea. You have my word that fast object was moving across the lcd screen and it coincides with the vapor trail. Of course, there is not way I can prove that and the vapor trail could be the result of all the things you mentioned. I have searched the internet extensively for a lenticular cloud that rotates and sends out a tube like structure. I have scanned the internet for instances where an area under a strong laminar flow produces a series of highly complex patterns off and on for two hours. I do not expect anyone to accept my word but the images are unique and no one has shown anything comparable. It is almost impossible to see patterns form under a laminar flow because the rushing air currents disrupt the formation of anything in their path. Yet, an area of relative calm opened under the laminar flow where the images I posted were captured.
I have reposted the image below that was taken shortly after the image pierced the cloud. It shows a very symmetrical fan like structure that moved upward from the ridge. If it were not for some of turbulence of the cloud above that was beginning to rotate, it would be almost be perfect in symmetry. This in itself is highly unusual and it wind currents and turbulence do not produce this degree of symmetry.
If you review the dozens of geometric patterns that I have posted and captured that morning, they are not typical of images associated with laminar flows or lenticular clouds. I never implied that this was irrefutable data, assumptions have to be made about the truthfulness of the observer, many images can be skillfully manipulated with photoshop. I have invited members of this website to post images forming below a lenticular cloud and above a mountain peak and none have been posted thus far. If this was such a common occurrence, surely someone in the last hundred years photographing lenticular clouds would have captured similar patterns under similar conditions. They have not.
What kind of forces of wind could produce the image posted in the fan shape? To say that it is fractal, in my mind, explains nothing, everything in nature is fractal and everything in nature obeys certain laws. Thank you for the time to analyze the images I have posted and the critique.