How 'sky penis' came to be

Some light has been shed on the backstory of a penis drawn in the sky just south of the border a year and a half ago.

All eyes were on the skies on Nov. 16, 2017, when an American naval pilot showed off his creative flair, drawing a particularly phallic image in the sky above Okanogan County using the jet's contrails.

The Navy Times recently obtained the transcript from a video recording inside the cockpit of the jet responsible for the dubious sky art.

“You should totally try to draw a penis,” the pilot's partner, a junior officer, first suggested.

“Dude, that would be so funny,” the pilot replied. “Airliners coming back on their way into Seattle, just this big f***ng, giant penis. We could almost draw a vein in the middle of it, too.”

After finding the right altitude for good contrails, the pilot got to work, first making a figure-eight.

“Balls are going to be a little lopsided,” the pilot told his partner. “I just gotta navigate a little bit over here for the shaft.”

“It’s gonna be a wide shaft,” the partner noted.

After completing their work, the pilot took the jet higher to get a bird's-eye view of their creation.

“Oh yes, that was f***ing amazing,” the pilot said. “This is so obvious.”

“Your artwork is amazing,” a lieutenant commander in another jet said over the radio.

“Glad you guys noticed,” the pilot/artist replied.

And while the pilot and his partner thought their work would quickly dissipate, and thus remain an inside joke, it was not to be.

“I remarked that we needed to take steps to try to obfuscate it,” the pilot later wrote in a statement. “I flew one pass over it essentially trying to scribble it out with my contrails. That pass was ineffective.”

Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your sense of humour, the art piece was seen far and wide after photos of it were posted on social media.

While the squadron's commanding officer was “immediately furious,” an investigation recommended the pilot and his partner, noted to be "fine officers and capable aviators," receive “non-punitive letters of instruction.”