What the Helen of Troy is This

“Any idea what these are?”

“Dear PoPville,

Was playing tennis by Nats park and at least 15 of these streaks across the sky appeared with tails lasting for 20 minutes, as many as 3 or 4 at a time and crashing down…have you heard from anyone else on this?”

Twitter/X tells us they are just contrails:

“The angle looks so strange but apparently it is just normal planes, I saw a bunch tonight around sunset from my rooftop.”