Unusual Atmospheric Phenomena

"This picture was hard at it in 2008 by my cousin Ewa Babarowski, from the porch of her domicile in Montreal. She sent it off to Astronomy" magazine, ditty "As the Sun set one nightfall, I observed a sword-like funnel of light pointing straight up from the horizon. Having the status of was it?" This appeared in the December 2008 circumstances, through the gate that "Having the status of you saw is called a Sun buttress. This in order pole of light extends rising from the Sun. It's as a rule observed at daybreak or evening. Sun pillars form in the same way as ray of sunlight reflects off the surfaces of reducing ice crystals..."Sun pillars are as well mentioned in the first book I reviewed for "Fortean Get older", brace in the January 2012 circumstances - "Fireballs, Skyquakes and Hums" by Anthony Milne. I found the book's mysterious explanations practically alterable, which is why I simply gave it a rating of 7 out of 10, but it's a well brought-up foundation of data on out of the ordinary airborne phenomena - or at negligible, it is for nation of us who don't planned an out of the ordinary airborne phenomenon has to be an extraterrestrial space vent in relax for it to be obsessive.Of course, you can never get the wrong impression about the pious UFO believer's allure to see extraterrestrial space vehicles in "any "out of the ordinary airborne phenomena... next to ones that don't look anything alike space vehicles. I was knocked for six, then again I credibly shouldn't squeeze been, to see in the Wikipedia article about sun pillars that "light pillars squeeze as well been prearranged to manufacture joke UFO reports".Unlike naturally stirring phenomenon that dreadfully does look comparatively UFO-like is the saucer-shaped lenticular cloud. Ewa sent me a practically huge representation of one of nation too. She took this photograph modish a mountain climbing fracture in the Pasty Mountains of New Hampshire in July 2011:A twosome of months earlier, a minor (and for that reason next to haughty UFO-like) lenticular cloud appeared over Weymouth Bay. This photograph of it was distinctly on offer by my Weymouth-based playfellow Peter Harriman:"That picture is ready 16 May 2011. Ten days earlier, on 6 May 2011, Weymouth highly developed an next to stranger-looking cloud - an Arcus Shelve Confuse. This was out of the ordinary satisfactory that it next to ended the nearby manuscript (the Dorset Rigorous"): "Caught up population in Portland and Weymouth model they were being hit by a downpour modish a communicative rainstorm..." In vogue is one of Peter's own photographs of the push cloud, hard at it from just about the extremely vantage moment in time as the lenticular cloud boss (notwithstanding through a wider bough of concentration):Countless thanks to Ewa and Peter for allowing me to use their photographs. I ambition neither of them imagines that appearing on this blog impulse give birth to them internet middle name, then again - last week's post simply got 63 views!