You don’t have to leave the planet to find weirdness. These tube clouds can move at sixty clicks an hour with no discernible wind to push them. They form every spring over Australia. The Seablogger says we also get them over the Midwest (and elsewhere in the world) the morning after a night of severe thunderstorms.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Wow, that’s indeed a beauty. Of course, where Aussies are concerned, you should expect something out of the ordinary.
Indeed. Unlike the Seablogger, I have never seen anything like these in our neck of the woods.