Tonight i was looking at the sky and saw something i've never seen before.

 

I hope any of you can help me guess what it is and to clear if it is normal phenomenon.

 

There was a light (you saw just a round shape) moving on the clouds, wherever was a cloud the light appeared. Colour was blue-greyish.

 

After a while of that light moving on the cloud the cloud end disappearing.

 

Also the moon don't have the shape it should have, as one of the 'corner's is not as sharp as it should be, which is strange.

 

The light we wondered if it was some laser, but is too big and you can't see it coming from the ground, so obviously should come from above the clouds.

 

If it were a plane, helicopter or something you'd hear the noise, or see the machine, but nothing, plus the light was seen just on the cloud.

 

I was with a neigbour who is an astronomy fan, and had never seen that before, and couldn't found an explanation to it.

 

Any of you had seen that before?

Know what it is?

Do any scientific fan here can say if such a phenomenon was expected for those days or something?

 

Sadly i couldn't took a pic of it, though if it repeats tomorrow i'll try to get some video or something.

Oh just a friendly alien.

I knew it.

aliens? :wreck:

:bigcry:

an illusion

If I am understanding what you are describing, I've seen that before. If you've heard the term "sun dog", it's the equivalent of that, but with the moon.

If I am understanding what you are describing, I've seen that before. If you've heard the term "sun dog", it's the equivalent of that, but with the moon.

i never heard that term before.

and what's the explanation to it?

 

nah is not that, i searched it on google and what i saw didn't look like that.

If a retired NORAD officer says there will be aliens, no way I will believe there wont.

i never heard that term before.

and what's the explanation to it?

 

nah is not that, i searched it on google and what i saw didn't look like that.

So it didn't look like a nighttime version of this? (sorry the pictures are so big, blame wikipedia)

 

 

 

It's cool to look at these, though http://www.google.com/images?q=sundog&um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch:1&ei=zym2TJXFCc-NnQfosJSBDQ&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=20

Searchlight in the clouds, you can never see those coming off the ground because they don't go through much of anything.

 

Or probably, anyway.

no, plus it was moving just on the cloud, until at some point the cloud disappeared all of a sudden.

 

it happened in at least 3 different clouds on different sections of the area we've been, btw the clouds were 'thin' not 'strong', sorry language may be is not so accurate, another strange thing we noticied is that the light seemed to try to approach to Jupiter, also some constellations were 'moved' and not on their usual placement in the sky, as well as moon was setting on a different section than the usual.

 

my dad has done some research on the net and only explanation is it is related with climate change, but i doubt it be that...

 

the light had some kind of autonomy, so i don't think it was a normal nature event, not even provoked by human polution, cause if it were for the CC, then only i can think of, is that the metals or gases we send to the sky, was mixing with the clouds and reacting, but i think it'll provoke a different kind of lightnining, as a small thunder but not as a round light that moves around on the cloud, and which is more strange the phenomenon happened until the cloud disappeared.

it moved in a speed that is not how nature does, wasn't slow nor too fast (as sun rise, or thunder).

 

can't be as arwen said, cause we were different people who saw it in different moments along the night, plus other people around us that we have no relation with came randomly next to us to ask us, 'what's that in the sky'? so if it was an illusion it should had been a collective one, which i doubt it was the case at all, because people commented us they saw it in other near streets and the focus of the light was in our area.

 

at first we thought it was some canon lights from some disco, but if it were the case we'd seen the 'ground' part of the light, which in this case we didn't saw.

the light simply seemed to come from above the cloud and the light wasn't projected under the cloud to the ground. :confused:

Searchlight in the clouds, you can never see those coming off the ground because they don't go through much of anything.

 

Or probably, anyway.

 

so that phenomenon is catalogued, studied and have a name?

if yes, what causes it?

Possibly aurora borealis? Or is it not possible to see those where you live?

so that phenomenon is catalogued, studied and have a name?

if yes, what causes it?

 

Um well... no... it's people shining searchlights... into the sky... and they hit clouds. Why would it have a name??

Sounds like job for Mulder and Scully to me!:stunned:

UFO!

at first we thought it was some canon lights from some disco, but if it were the case we'd seen the 'ground' part of the light, which in this case we didn't saw.

 

No you wouldn't've, I mean if you saw the light being projected into the air why would you see it while it was going through the air?? You see light because it bounces off stuff, there isn't much to bounce off in the air; there is tons of stuff to bounce off in the clouds, ergo, you saw the light in the clouds.

Possibly aurora borealis? Or is it not possible to see those where you live?

such phenomenon has never been reported to had been seen in my area, too distant to there it use to happen, plus the lights didn't had the intensity nor the form of the aurora borealis.

 

Um well... no... it's people shining searchlights... into the sky... and they hit clouds. Why would it have a name??

people shining searchlights?

if so we've had seen it as searchlight, we should had seen the light coming from some point on the ground or something, and the light that we saw was only on the cloud, how can you project a light and not see the trace of where it comes from?

plus it seems that whatever caused it was from above the cloud.

 

i've reasearched different phenomenons of this kind, and registered ones have a name to refer to them, as the one said here, 'moon dog'.

No you wouldn't've, I mean if you saw the light being projected into the air why would you see it while it was going through the air?? You see light because it bounces off stuff, there isn't much to bounce off in the air; there is tons of stuff to bounce off in the clouds, ergo, you saw the light in the clouds.

other times when we've seen projected lights from some place (disco as i said), we saw the light coming from the ground, if a light is projected you can see where it comes from if is from the ground.

this one moved on a different rhythm, in fact didn't follow a pattern at all, and also if it was simply a searchlight, why did all the clouds in which the light did reflected disappeared?

at the end of the phenomenon there were no clouds at all in the area.

Yeah dude if it was far enough away you wouldn't be able to see the light going up and you would be able to see it on the clouds, I've seen it myself a couple of times, it isn't that weird...

 

And sorry, if you mentioned the disappearing clouds I didn't notice them.

Well, apparently today is supposed to be a big UFO day

 

http://www.ghosttheory.com/2010/10/11/retired-norad-officer-oct-13-2010-aliens-will-make-contact

:inquisitive: I'm scared.

Dude it's floating candy corn! :rolleyes3:

hmm... interesting... apparently there were some unidentified flying objects over manhattan today... weird

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