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Strange Colorful Cloud Forms Over Metroplex (Dallas-FTWorth
Posted on 07/21/2005 12:38:04 PM PDT by PaulaB
-- A weird-looking cloud sporting the colors of the rainbow appeared to many in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex early Thursday afternoon.The cloud stayed in the southeastern sky for several minutes, but was obscured by other clouds at times.
NBC 5 Meteorolgist James Aydelott offered one possible explanation, saying that the sun was hitting the cloud at just the right angle, similar to a phenomenon known as "sun dogs," causing the colorful display. He also said he had never seen a cloud like this before.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: chemtrails; clouds; homosexualagenda; nutbagconspiracy
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To: bannie
"Okay, Beatrice. There was no alien, and the flash of light you saw in the sky wasn't a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from Venus."
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posted on
07/21/2005 12:52:43 PM PDT
by
50sDad
( ST3d - Star Trek Tri-D Chess! http://my.oh.voyager.net/~abartmes)
To: PaulaB
You're more adult and dignified than me :)
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posted on
07/21/2005 12:55:31 PM PDT
by
najida
(The hardest person to forgive is yourself.)
To: PaulaB
We get iridescent clouds all the time here in Colorado, and sometimes iridescent contrails. I think that's an iridescent contrail from a jet turning in a loop, hence the curved shape. (I don't think it's a arc of iridesence within the larger cloud.) If you put on dark sunglasses and look at the edges of clouds the sun is presently behind or near, you will see lots of iridescent places in the clouds - it isn't rare.
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posted on
07/21/2005 12:55:43 PM PDT
by
coloradan
(Hence, etc.)
To: WIladyconservative
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posted on
07/21/2005 12:56:43 PM PDT
by
coloradan
(Hence, etc.)
To: najida
:) well I don't know love..but thanks
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posted on
07/21/2005 12:56:46 PM PDT
by
PaulaB
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To: siunevada
Ooooh...that's esoteric, AND funny!
"Next week, Chapter 12 of War and Peace..."
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posted on
07/21/2005 12:58:37 PM PDT
by
Itzlzha
("The avalanche has already started...it is too late for the pebbles to vote")
To: coloradan
...it isn't rare. Spoil-Sport :-p
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posted on
07/21/2005 12:59:50 PM PDT
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: PaulaB
Ok, someone had to do this.
It's what ya'll are thinkin anyway.
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posted on
07/21/2005 1:00:19 PM PDT
by
Malsua
To: PaulaB
I have been lucky enough to see one like that driving through Utah somewhere between SLC and St George. It was so beautiful, we had to pull over and stop.
Someone once explained this phenomena to me, atmospheric crystals or some such thing, I can't remember now. lol
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posted on
07/21/2005 1:00:21 PM PDT
by
WestCoastGal
(Never avenge yourselves. but leave the way open for [Gods] wrath.)
To: PaulaB
From the looks of it, I would say a plane dumped a load of blue ice that refracted the sun's rays.
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posted on
07/21/2005 1:00:52 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(As darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of good; innocence is blind.)
To: PaulaB
Excuse me....*blushes*....I was hungry...
+
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posted on
07/21/2005 1:01:53 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(" I have a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush" John Kerry -2004)
To: PaulaB
Another view someone took from 820
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posted on
07/21/2005 1:02:05 PM PDT
by
PaulaB
To: Dallas59
LOLOL ..OK I'm thinking American Airlines is responsible!!!
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posted on
07/21/2005 1:03:03 PM PDT
by
PaulaB
To: sofaman
He's right. Saw it many times when I lived in
So Cal.
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posted on
07/21/2005 1:04:26 PM PDT
by
pbear8
(Prime Choice is back!!!!!!!)
To: PaulaB
| What do you think is the best explanation for the strange cloud seen over the Metroplex on July 21? |
| Choice |
Votes |
Percentage of 437 Votes |
| It was the sun hitting a cloud at a certain angle, similar to a "sun dog." |
141 |
 32% |
| It was a contrail from a plane that discharged an odd substance. |
49 |
11% |
| It was a message, perhaps from one-time Hurricane Emily. |
29 |
7% |
| It was a UFO! |
72 |
16% |
| It was something else. |
37 |
8% |
| I don't know. |
109 |
25% |
| Thank you for taking our survey! |
|
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posted on
07/21/2005 1:09:13 PM PDT
by
evets
(You're welcome.)
To: PaulaB
Beware martians riding rainbows or lightning.
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posted on
07/21/2005 1:11:38 PM PDT
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: PaulaB
"A weird-looking cloud sporting the colors of the rainbow appeared to many in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex"
A metro-rainbow ?
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posted on
07/21/2005 1:15:21 PM PDT
by
SunnySide
(Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
To: hispanarepublicana
Maybe God is trying to send a message about Eminent Domain to the city of Arlington.
LOL...probably.....
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posted on
07/21/2005 1:16:13 PM PDT
by
PaulaB
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