This can produce multiple lenticular clouds on the downwind side of a mountain. These are technically called standing waves. Finally, when a lenticular cloud is in contact with the top of the ...

Lenticular Clouds Shrouding the Peaks of Mount McKinley (Getty Images/Ron Sanford) On June 24, 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing multiple mysterious, ...

Also known as "UFO clouds or cap clouds," lenticular clouds offer "a rare glimpse at the crests of gravity waves," says Earthdata, a website of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration .

As a round, orange-tinted cloud hovered Thursday over Bursa, Turkey, it might have looked like a flying saucer was about to land. But it was just a lenticular cloud — not uncommon in the ...

"I knew it was a Lenticular cloud because I had seen one many years ago in New Zealand, but had never seen one in the U.K.," Woogler, 53, said.

Videographer Robert Renick captured a time-lapse video Sunday of a self-regenerating “lenticular” cloud that spent the late afternoon and evening hovering atop the 14,179-foot-tall summit of ...

Furthermore, lenticular clouds, as a whole, are generally situated to the side of the peak that the air flows over, such as seen in these images.

On 25 July 2018, an image purportedly showing a large lenticular cloud over the Giza Pyramids was posted on the "Pics" section of Reddit: This is not a genuine photograph of the Giza Pyramids ...

Fittingly lenticular clouds sometimes get compared to, or even mistaken for, flying saucers. After all, they’re pretty alien compared to our normal, fluffy cumulus clouds. A lenticular cloud ...