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Sorta like this?That was the thermal shear from the shock wave alone. All the humidity in the ambient air was suddenly compressed and what we saw the the few moments of that vapor literally squeezed from the air before it was reabsorbed.
U.S. Navy F/A-18 traveling near the speed of sound. The white halo consists of condensed water droplets formed by the sudden drop in air pressure behind the shock cone around the aircraft (see Prandtl-Glauert singularity).