Ask HN: Smoking Object in the Sky?

OK, this happened in October of 2022. I was flying over Texas and there was something in the air that was billowing black smoke. My partner saw it as well but neither of us captured an image of it.

The object appeared to us to be suspended, not moving, in the air and either on fire or otherwise emitting black smoke.

It was in the day time, and there were not many clouds. I may be able to give an estimated latlong and datetime.

We tried looking up any sort of events in airspace using our limited knowledge but didn’t find anything and have just procrastinated on researching it more.

Any idea how to figure out what this phenomenon was?