The unnamed lad was flying from Malaga to Bristol when he looked out of the window and saw what looked to be huge levitating rod of metal in the air.
Posting a bizarre picture of it online, he told internet users he had used his flight mapper information to work out that he was nearly 5,000ft above land.
He then asked people what the pole could have possibly been considering it was literally poking out of the sky nearly a mile high.