In Pictures: Incredible UFO Cloud Spotted in Sweden

The Local ^ | 27 January 2017

[nickcarraway]

A mysterious UFO-shaped cloud baffled skiers when it appeared in the sky over Sweden.

The bizarre cloud floated in the sky over ski resorts Åre and Duved on Thursday, prompting some to speculate that Martians had arrived for a day on the slopes.

Many rushed to take pictures of the unusual phenomenon and posted them on social media.

"I thought it was pretty cool," one of them, Elvira Kuper, told broadcaster SVT.

Experts explained it was a so-called lenticular cloud, which forms over mountain peaks when the air is forced to rise as it hits the hillside. As it cools it condenses into a cloud.

Thanks to their peculiar shape, they are often mistaken for UFOs.

Here are some of the best pictures of the cloud:

[nickcarraway]

[Telepathic Intruder]

That’s no cloud... Oh wait, yes it is.

[central_va]

Seeing that would make me stop drinking.

[SpaceBar]

Immersed in a sea of damp air on a spinning ball of rock orbiting around a star, you’re eventually going to see some weird stuff.

[TChad]

This time Thor is serious.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Nature is better and prettier than fiction.

[basalt]

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/

[lefty-lie-spy]

Those clouds are rare to see, but not at all unusual. They are strikingly beautiful.

[x_plus_one]

Kansas and Oklahoma have BIG clouds.

[Yaelle]

This proves it. Even on other planets Los Angeles is seen as worthless. We have never seen a cloud like that here. They don’t want to have anything to do with Hollyweird either.

[Fzob]

Looks like a giant glazed donut. I must be hungry.

[Robert DeLong]

You were right the first time. This is what is remaining after the death ray was fired:

[trebb]

Nature is better and prettier than fiction.

Yep -with random incidents of rare and spectacular beauty sprinkled among all the "regular" beauty.

[bog trotter]

I have seen them here in mid-MI.
Kinda freaked me too.
They’re not supposed to be here, according to the place I looked them up. Mostly in mountains or seashores, it said.

[freefdny]

In Sweden I see a beautiful glazed doughnut. In Kansas its a delicious stack of pancakes with syrup splashing on top.