Crazy cloud photograph gallery (with the very strange Mammatus clouds!)

http://pic1.piczo.com/valuca/?g=25544746

What am i looking for here? All i see is clouds and a tree.

*EDIT* Sorry, thought i was looking for something, very beautiful.

Those are some amazing cloud structures. I wonder if these could structures could spawn some of the UFO sightings.

All you need for UFOs is a bit of overcast, than they can fly undetected.

Great pictures, thanks! Here's another site:

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004...s-mammatus.html

Looks like paintings to me.

odd....

Great stuff-those Mammatus clouds sure are freaky-if I saw those I'd run for the hills.
Cheers karl

Great find!

Thanks for the very nice pictures guys. Really enjoyed them. Maybe someone should make a picture book about them or maybe a calander.

Wow! They're awsome! I can see how some of these may end up as "UFO stories"... Class!

God is amazing idn't He!

http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004...s-mammatus.html

My God! My God! How amazing you are!

Erm... ok. This cloud's shapes were problably produced due to the wind currents, yes they are very rare but they can happen. Clouds are wind's toys really, the wind moves clouds, shapes them ect...............


I dont know why but they look like candy

That is too cool.Im not even into photography and I saved a few of the pics. Sweet find.
-Z-

That's mammatus without a bra.

I was going to ask why they call them mammatus clouds and you answered it for me.

These are great pics, thanks for posting them!!!!!

Oh.... ok I get it now lol.

Awsome link. These are so flipping awsome.

Some of the pictures look like they're UFO's. But I know they're not.

Some of the clouds sure do look strange ,the series of 4 photographs (16th down) look truly freaky:
http://pic1.piczo.com/valuca/?g=25544746

And the Aurora Borealis images look bonkers!
http://pic1.piczo.com/valuca/?g=27218029

More:
http://pic1.piczo.com/valuca/?g=27233605

It is east to see how these clouds could be mistaken for UFOs. The pics of clouds covering mountaintops really remind me of the end of the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, when the alien ship comes down to the mountain to communicate with the people.

Awesome!

[quote name='karl 12' date='Sep 22 2007, 08:28 PM' post='1899803']
Some of the clouds sure do look strange ,the series of 4 photographs (16th down) look truly freaky:
http://pic1.piczo.com/valuca/?g=25544746

Zu13,yes Lenticular clouds have long been known to pilots/aviation professionals as resembling saucer shaped objects (yet UFO reports from highly trained professionals still persist).
Id be interested in your opinion of the series of four photographs on the link above (16 th down)-the cloud/object seems to have a reddish interior and looks truly bizarre.
Cheers Karl

UFO's eating up mountains

Errr what?

Really great link - this one is going to make the rounds to all of the people on my email list. Thanks!

Repoman-your welcome

Wow I had never seen this cloud phenomenon before! Nature never fails to impress me. Thanks for posting it, it looks beautyfull.

They would be exceedingly strange if they were in fact mammatus clouds...


These are lenticulars...a very different cloud formation.

StarMountainKid posted photos of mammatus form clouds.
Both can be pretty freaky looking, however!

MID thanks for the reply,they have been shuffled around a bit since last year.
Heres the other one:
http://pic1.piczo.com/valuca/?g=27233605&cr=1

Also,theres another link showing some nice nancreous,circumhorizon and wave clouds too!
http://valuca.piczo.com/?g=29018559&cr=1
Cheers Karl

Mt. Rainier has produced some really spectacular lenticular clouds (there are some good pic of Mt. Rainier on that site too!)... I've seen them about 5 times in the 40 years I've lived in WA.

I have NO doubt that they've been mistaken for UFO's in this area... The mountain is known for it's UFO sightings for sure. I would not be surprised if what people are really seeing is lenticulars.

Neat-o stuff! I think maybe the only other weather oddity that's neater than seeing a lenticular cloud is maybe seeing a water spout. I've only seen one of those, it was well.. far out!

Those were awesome. They could really be mistaken for UFO's. Cool pics.

You bet...


Now them there's some mammatus formations!

Generally speaking, when I see them, I take cover...!

More cloud/aircraft piccies:



Extreme beautiful weather:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/09/ex...ul-weather.html

Aircraft making Sonic booms:
http://pic1.piczo.com/valuca/?g=26731427

Aircraft flares:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/09/fi...res-flares.html

Clicky: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:C17-Vortex.JPG

Theres some neat clouds around the world, These arer amazing, And for the Mammatus clouds Those are just plain strange, I would love the oppertunity to see them;

Regards;

TFF