Atmospheric Phenomenen Identyifying- List

Oddly enough, I've seen a circular halo on a plane one time! It was really cool, and I wish I still had the photo

Were you inside the plane or outside?

It's been said this may have something to do with ice crystals moving within certain type of clouds but did think this was a freaky one.

a reply to: karl 12

Ya...that was definitely freaky, Karl

My pick is "mares tails".

a reply to: OzWeatherman

Nice one. Beautiful for hell..

These are some of the strangest natural phenomenon I have seen till date.

originally posted by: Vitrude
Oddly enough, I've seen a circular halo on a plane one time! It was really cool, and I wish I still had the photo

Are you talking about this?

a reply to: raman2109
If you post the full link, don't use the embed feature, which you tried to do and it doesn't work.

To use the embed feature, only post the part of the video link appearing after the equals sign, like this:



That's an optical effect called Glory, I've seen it too, many times.

A glory is an optical phenomenon that resembles an iconic saint's halo about the shadow of the observer's head, caused by light of the Sun or (more rarely) the Moon interacting with the tiny water droplets that make up mist or clouds. The glory consists of one or more concentric, successively dimmer rings, each of which is red on the outside and bluish towards the centre. Due to its appearance, the phenomenon is sometimes mistaken for a circular rainbow, but the latter has a much larger diameter and is caused by different physical processes.

Glories arise due to wave interference of light internally refracted within small droplets.

OzWeatherman who made this thread refers to the "Brocken Spectre" on page 1, which is also a Glory phenomenon, a specific type where the person also sees their own shadow in the mist (instead of the airplane's shadow in the airplane example) surrounded by the multicolored halo.

Hi All,

Really liking this thread, so thought I'd contribute...

If you ever get the chance, head North to Witness Nature at it's most colourful



I took this, just outside Tromso in Northern Norway last January
Watching the Aurora Borealis or as it is more commonly known The Northern Lights, is very spiritual and primal.
And I highly recommend it..


Peace

Rock Ape

Does anyone know WTF these are?


(as featured in presentation by Japanese UFO researcher Junichi Yaoi)


See 1:14:45



Cheers.

I saw something in the sky over I-5 driving from Portland to SFBay in 1999 I have never been able to identify. I was a passenger in a vehicle with a moon roof and saw this by looking almost straight up into a cloudy sky. It had been raining so there was cloud cover as far as the eye could see. The clouds were broken in many places with blue sky shining through. I could see the disk of the sun to my right over the Pacific. Directly overhead above the lowest clouds but below the highest I saw a well-defined disc of rainbow like colors appearing the size of a half-dollar held at arm length. The confusing aspect of this phenomenon was the fact that the color banding was striped rather than circular, so it was like something like a cookie cutter had excised a portion of rainbow (three colored stripes) and gotten rid of the remainder. I have usually referred to what I saw as a “ rainbow orb.” This was in sight for more than five minutes and the driver saw it as well. It had recently rained, but the area was at that time dry and sunny through the broken cloud cover. Any ideas what I saw? A photo of such phenomena would be appreciated. Unfortunately I had no camera. Again, the sun was visible but in a different part of the sky.

Thanks.

originally posted by: karl 12
Does anyone know WTF these are?


(as featured in presentation by Japanese UFO researcher Junichi Yaoi)


See 1:14:45

Cheers.

Anyone any ideas on this one?

originally posted by: karl 12
Anyone any ideas on this one?

Why couldn't it be just what he says it is? A searchlight hitting the water.

Fishing boats can generate so much light they can be seen from space, as shown in this photo:

earthobservatory.nasa.gov...

In 2012, a global composite map of Earth’s night lights revealed human activity well offshore from South America. (NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA National Geophysical Data Center)

www.caelestia.be...

One single boat can carry several hundred thousand watts of incandescent light (mostly mercury vapour lights)

Related to the space observations of fishing boats as "UFO":

Astronaut Leroy Chiao Opens Up About His 2005 UFO Sighting

In 2005, astronaut Leroy Chiao was commander of the International Space Station for six and a half months. During a spacewalk with cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov, the two were installing navigation antennas. They were 230 miles above Earth, traveling at over 17,000 miles per hour, when something unusual caught Chiao's eye.

"I saw some lights that seemed to be in a line and it was almost like an upside-down check mark, and I saw them fly by and thought it was awfully strange," Chiao told The Huffington Post.

Of course the video you posted isn't about space observations but I'd guess a similar source, fishing boats with bright lights.

a reply to: Arbitrageur

Well thanks for getting back to me on that and appreciate the legwork - the objects in the vid did look very strange (to me anyway).