Did anyone see the strange clouds over Los Angeles a week ago?
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Did they look like this? If so, they were nothing more harmful then Lenticular Clouds. Normally, air moves much more horizontally than it does vertically. Sometimes, however, such as when wind comes off of a mountain or a hill, relatively strong vertical oscillations take place as the air stabilizes. The dry air at the top of an oscillation may be quite stratified in moisture content, and hence forms clouds at each layer where the air saturates with moisture. The result can be a lenticular cloud with a strongly layered appearance.
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Look like you are going to have partly cloudy conditions.....the links to you weather...check it out!!
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The light could have been better than usual - I've spent evenings in the desert out here stargazing and seen around that many some nights...given the number of satellites up there, not to mention other junk, I'd say that you had a good viewing, but that it's probably nothing out of the ordinary.
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Yes.  I've seen them a couple times.  I think they're actually meteors entering the earth's atmosphere. (They get set on fire and you see the trail) Sometimes there are meteor showers and you can see a whole bunch of them at one time.  Watch your local newsweatherman enough and he'll let you know.
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I've never seen one, but my son had an interesting experience which he's loathe to talk about to this day.  He was driving out to see a friend around ll:00 at night, when he saw a very large, very bright light in the sky above an empty field.  He became so frightened he had to pull over.  After what seemed like a few seconds, he continued on his way. When he arrived at his destination he found he'd been on the road for over an hour longer than it should have taken him to drive to his friend's.  He forgot all about it until the next time, months later, when, driving by the same field, he became unexplicably filled with terror.  He shook so hard he could barely drive.  He had this same irrational fear come over him every time he passed that field, so he simply found another route.  I encouraged him to try to find out more about it, but he says it's too scary & weird & he'd rather not investigate, preferring not to know what happened.  I do believe we are not alone in this infinitely vast universe.  I only wish I could prove it!  If there are ET's, I hope they show themselves in MY lifetime.  I'd love to know the truth!
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I'm very much a realist, but I have one story I cannot expalin.\n\nI was watching what I thought was a helicopter off the coast of Maine.  It was hovering and slowly moving around an island roughly seven miles away.  It was late afternoon, so the light was fantastic and the air, for once, was very clear.\n\nThis object slid back and forth maybe 3000-4000 feet high (triangulate from the distance) and then it did two strange things:  it sort of oscillated in a tight radius back and forth, like lint getting sucked down a bath drain, and then it just winked out of sight.  It didn't exactly disappear all at once, rather, it kind of took a moment or two.  I thought it might had slipped into a fog bank, but there was no fog; I could see distant color in the sky.\n\nI don't think about this experience so much anymore.  But I do get chills when I do recall that day.  I have no explanation, and I offer no theories.  But that's my story.
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Yes. I saw one. broad daylight.  above fiber industries in Greenvile S.C. blue Sky's. I looked over. darn .nothing was holding it up.It was right above these pipes and things on the right side of the mile long building.hovering a few hundred feet above the pipes. large silver saucer shaped craft..just hovering there. I could have shot it if I had  had my rifle. it was that close. I pulled my car over and sat there and watched it for a while then when on.later in the Greenville news there was an article about a trucker who said a silver saucer followed him down high way 85 to Spartanburg and back to Greenville. a few years later I was telling some people at work about my seeing that saucer and this man said his brother had told him he had seen one over fiber industries about the same time I had seen it.sure do wonder what they are and what there doing here.Personally i don't like it that they fly around and don't introduce themselves. maybe they have to the government but they don't wont to tell us.I have researched them a good bit. There s no doubt there here. the question is what are they up to.I got a Bad feeling about them when I saw that one.
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Well, I was walking down by the creek one night, watching the moon disappear, cause it wasn't quite new but it was becoming smaller and smaller. The sky was a really dark purple, and it was raining somewhere in the distance cause the sky was a brownish color a bit of distance away. \n\nAny-who, I was walking and it got really windy, so I stopped to feel it, cause cold makes me sleepy and I already couldn't sleep that night. There was this guy who walked out in front of me, and scared the Bejesus out of me, cause he had a like, big hooded jacket or whatever, and his eyes were a really bright hazel, like gold.\n\nWell, he stared at me for a long while, and then he came at me, and I didn't run for it, cause I wasn't really responding so well after we first made eye-contact. I got this dropping feeling in my stomach, he reached out for me and caught me by the throat. I passed out, and woke up on the couch in my apartment with a silver chain on that I didn't remember owning...\n\nI been possessed by an angry vampyre ever since, and weird stuff has been happening since that night, so there you go. A tad cliche, and I'm not sure if an over-sized black jacket counts as a cloak, but it's the closest I've got.\n\nThink I'm crazy now? If not, then you are obviously an interesting judge of mentality...
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I havent had an encounter.... but I have seen one. It was hanging over a highway at night.We drove directly under it, and it was no higher up than a treetop. The object was triangular in shape, with rounded corners. There were colored lights along the inside of the triangle. It made no noise as we went under it, and on the way home, my friend said it wasnt there. For those of you that answered my question about ufo's, whether you believe me or not, I was not on anything, and wasnt drinking. I know what I saw.
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It could. Anything could happen. A tornado hit NH this past week, so anything can happen!! :)\n\nPlus, haven't you seen "Day After Tomorrow"? That had a ton of tornados in LA! Blew the whole damn city away.
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My grandmother did back in the 70's. She was coming home from a show with about 5 friends, and they seen one hovering over a cemetary. She said it was a triangular shape and it had a light beam at each point. She said it just sat there for about 10 minutes and then lifted up back into the sky. She told me that a UFO was reported in the same exact spot about 7 years before she seen one there. Freaky, eh?
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ya once i think  i saw a strange thing in the sky at 3.00 at night but im not sure
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Yes I have, about 8 years ago. It was a ufo, until we managed to identify it as a Sirius satellite, the 'cigar shape' was the light reflected off it's solar panels. Spent 2 days worrying about an alien invasion!!
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y Peijean Tsai\nDaily Bruin Contributor\n\nOn a clear day you can see forever. As long as the sky stays clear over the next two weeks, astronomy lovers will witness a cosmic opportunity that will not reoccur until 2040.\n\nUntil May 15 sky watchers will find the five visible planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Saturn and Jupiter – clustered together within 35 degrees of each other in the Western sky as they make their orbits around the sun.\n\nThe rare sight will be visible above the horizon just after sunset and can be viewed with the naked eye.\n\n"We'll all be dead and in the grave before the planets line up like this again," said Jay Farihi, a UCLA graduate student studying physics and astronomy.\n\nStudents and visitors to the UCLA campus have been able to get a closer look at the alignment with the help of telescopes atop the Math Sciences Building.\n\nThe ninth floor houses five telescopes, each 24 inches in diameter, that are used by members of the UCLA Undergraduate Astronomy Society.\n\nThe UAS also hosts weekly planetarium shows on Wednesdays, extending viewing opportunities to community members of all ages, said Matthew Barczys, a UCLA graduate student who helps organize UAS events.\n\nCloudy weather on Wednesday, however, prevented sky watchers from seeing the alignment.\n\n"The weather couldn't get worse than this," said Farihi, expressing disappointment. "Hopefully next Wednesday will be better."\n\nFor Greg Walth, the UAS vice president and a third-year physics student, looking at alignments captures both the entertaining and educational aspects of astronomy.\n\n"You look and you learn, and then you want to learn more," Walth said.\n\nWhile some people fear that planetary alignments could have dangerous effects in the universe, this planetary gathering has no astronomical significance, said Margaret Kivelson, a UCLA professor of earth and space sciences.\n\n"It's just an interesting coincidence, just a very pretty sight in the sky," said Kivelson.\n\nThis particular alignment is not too special for Barczys, who has seen similar arrangements before. He looks forward, however, to May 13 when all five visible planets and the moon can be seen after sunset.\n\nThe same five planets grouped together in May 2000, but the alignment was difficult to observe because of the position of the sun which bleached out the sky, according to the Cranbrook Institute of Science.\n\nMay 2006 there is a possible bright comet: Comet S-W3 73P, Comet 73P / Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, possibly may be a bright sight in the sky, from May 13-June 6. It is closest to earth on May 13 and closest to the sun on June 6 (6-6-06!
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Yes, it was night but me, my mom and my two little sisters saw the silhouette of a black disk in the sky, (it was really close to us) and it had red and green lights going around it. And almost as soon as we saw it it was gone. I know it wasn't an airplane or anything man made.
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i would say that the city lights are reflecting off the clouds.\n\never look outside and see red sky coming from a city direction?\nThats my guess I'm not positive
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Aurora can also look like waves or ripples going through the sky.  I think radiating away from the pole.  That's the only kind I've seen, but it was cool and really weird.