© Met Uy Station bcpHuge 'alien ship' cloud over Maracaibo, Venezuela
The article went on to explain that the phenomenon was caused by cloud iridescence (also called "fire rainbows" or "rainbow clouds"), whereby the sun's light is refracted by water droplets and ice crystals in the cloud. An iridescent cumulonimbus cloud was seen over Singapore in April this year.
It is likely that atmospheric dust loading from increased comet and volcanic activity is contributing to the 'strange skies' we are witnessing, the cooling effect of which causes ice crystals to form. See also:
- Beautiful iridescent clouds appear over Santiago, Chile
- 'Rare' noctilucent clouds put on sunrise show over Whitley Bay, UK
- Rare atmospheric 'crown flash' phenomenon seen above Moscow, Russia
- What causes iridescent clouds?
- Rare undulatus asperatus clouds form over Dorset, UK
- Spectacular multi-colored 'light pillars' illuminate skies in northern China
- Ball-lightning? 'Strange light' seen over Canberra, Australia
- Weird glowing light spotted over Netherlands: plasma discharge event?
"'Virgin Mary' appears for the faithful: Astonishing moment cloud 'resembling mother of Jesus' floats over Venezuelans taking part in Divine Mercy pilgrimage"
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It's also not the first time that UFOs, clouds and alleged Virgin Mary apparitions have been connected to each other. The alleged "Miracle of the Sun" at Fatima also had many similarities with UFOs. And according to Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada there were also many strange clouds at both Fatima and many UFO sightings.
I don't completely rule out the skeptics explanation for this sighting since I haven't looked at it too closely; however those that attempted to debunk the incident at Fatima came up with explanations that are more absurd than the UFO explanation, which is also incomplete due to inadequate information.
Additional strange weather was also associated with a strange storm when they attempted to move a megalithic statue of the Aztec God Tlaloc, which is hard to explain, but it might be part of a series of unsolved mysteries.
I tried to come up with my own theory that might explain some of this; although I try to be a rational skeptic, which is necessary for good research into unsolved mysteries, I find that in some cases the explanation from traditional academics simply don't add up. This is why I came up with a possible theory about weather control experiments described in part in "Hurricane Apocalypse Coming With or Without Fringe Conspiracy Theory"
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This theory is, at best incomplete, but it doesn't ignore many unsolved mysteries as traditional scientists do.