On June 24, 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing multiple mysterious, gleaming circular objects along the crest of the Cascade Mountains in Washington. It was one of the most famous UFO ...

If you've ever looked up and thought you spotted a UFO hovering near the mountains, chances are you were actually seeing lenticular clouds. These smooth, lens-shaped clouds are some of the most ...

I received a handful of emails on Tuesday morning about towering, disk-shaped clouds popping up over the Northern New England mountains, looking like alien spaceships ready to join in on our ...

It looks a bit like a boat, or a stout fedora. So what the hell is this rusty brown gossamer of a space cloud? If we’re being perfectly specific, it’s the lenticular galaxy NGC 4753, which sits about ...

Smooth, lens-shaped clouds that appear to hover motionless in the sky have triggered UFO reports for decades, but atmospheric scientists have a very grounded explanation. These formations are called ...

BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - The second installment of Cloud of the Month covers a cloud we don’t typically see here in the Brazos Valley - the lenticular cloud! In fact, to see lenticular clouds, we have to ...

Check out this cool cloud. It's a type of stratocumulus cloud called a lenticular cloud. They tend to form over higher elevations, especially over mountains where conditions are just right to give it ...

Landsat 8's Operational Land Imager acquired this image of an elongated lenticular cloud, locally nicknamed the "Taieri Pet," above New Zealand's South Island on Sept. 7, 2024. Lenticular clouds form ...

They're not an X-file, but lenticular clouds inspire awe wherever they form. Their tendency to look like swirling loops that hover in place spawned UFO reports for decades, but the truth behind their ...