Some boys from a students' hostel at Mantripukhri locality of Manipur's capital city Imphal saw a strange transparent circular object hovering over the neighbourhood at around 1:30 pm on Wednesday (7 October), claimed Lincoln Liba. He added that pictures of the mysterious see-through object were sent to him a day later.
Interestingly, the round, see-through object is seen just above the residential buildings. One of the pictures even has a rainbow in the backdrop. It appears to be a genuine photo and not photoshopped as a person is seen pointing at the object in one of the pictures.
Comment: The pointing could have been staged if someone knew they wanted to create a fake.
Some people may take it as lenticular clouds but the possibility is less as it doesn't look like lenticular clouds seen in the past. The object is also transparent with the clouds and rainbow clearly visible in the backdrop.
It may be noted that lenticular clouds are often confused for UFOs due to its oval-shaped structure. They appear smooth and are mostly found in near hills and mountainous areas.
Lenticular clouds are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form in the troposphere when humid air passes cooler regions. They are "different from other clouds because they don't move" and are "formed when air moves over mountains, cooling sufficiently for condensation to take place," according to AccuWeather Meteorologist Jesse Ferrell.
"They are continually reformed over the same location by new air rising up and over a mountain, condensing and producing the clouds," said Ferrell.
Comment: Could this be some big semi-cloaked mutha ship - or someone having a little fun with photoshop (or something else entirely)? We do know that pictures one and three appear to be the same (the third one being a cropped version of the first) and they are both different from the second, middle picture because of the positions and shapes of the clouds in relation to the foreground, if nothing else. So if these were photoshopped someone went to the trouble (or fun) of doing it with both photographs. The original article was touted as an Exclusive and came from the Indian edition of International Business Times.
Update: Looks like the photos in the article had the artwork below included as part of its photoshop chicanery.
Update 10/15/15: Seems like the photos above and others like it are creating quite a stir.