Video of something over Moscow

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Trippy looking, explained as weather event, but - ???

Short video at link.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93092?fp=1

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And you thought rainbows were cool. A few days ago, a mysterious cloud shaped like a halo appeared over Moscow, and the buzz has yet to break.

We're the first to admit that a photograph of the heavenly cloud appears to be photoshopped. It's just so...perfect. But meterologists have spoken up and said the cloud wasn't digitally altered. However, it wasn't exactly what it appeared to be, either.

When the cloud initially formed, some UFO enthusiasts declared it to be a "true mystery." Some even compared it to the giant spaceship hovering over Earth in the movie "Independence Day." Reality quickly dashed any predictions of an alien invasion. An article from the Daily Mail explains that the "luminous ring-shaped cloud" was simply an optical effect.

An official spokesperson for Moscow's weather department said, "Several fronts have been passing through Moscow recently, there was an intrusion of the Arctic air too, the sun was shining from the west — this is how the effect was produced."
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[rug]

1. I don't care what they say, I'm calling Will Smith.

[tridim]

2. UFO or not, very cool!

[HeresyLives]

3. Lenticular cloud.

[XemaSab]

4. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDi0XnqtHa0

[DCKit]

5. "HAARP In Action" was the title of the email I received the second this story broke.

Teh Woo-Woo is all over that one.

[beam me up scottie]

6. A punch hole cloud over Alabama:

Explanation: What could create a huge hole in the clouds? Such a hole, likely hundreds of meters across, was photographed last month from a driveway near Mobile, Alabama, USA. Very unusual to see, hole-punch clouds like this are still the topic of meteorological speculation. A leading hypothesis holds that the hole-punch cloud is caused by falling ice-crystals. The ice-crystals could originate in a higher cloud or be facilitated by a passing airplane exhaust. If the air has just the right temperature and moisture content, the falling crystals will absorb water from the air and grow. For this to happen, the water must be so cold that all it needs is a surface to freeze on. The moisture lost from the air increases the evaporation rate from the cloud water droplets so they dissipate to form the hole. The now heavier ice crystals continue to fall and form the more tenuous wispy cloud-like virga seen inside and just below the hole. Water and ice from the virga evaporates before they reach the ground.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap040112.html

[LeftHander]

7. "20,000 quatloos"