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 ...

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

These one-of-a-kind Lenticular clouds have fooled the best of ’em over the years — including an airborne pilot who saw the disk-shaped object by Mount Rainier of Washington in 1947.

These are technically called standing waves. Finally, when a lenticular cloud is in contact with the top of the mountain, it is called a cap cloud.

An astonishing display of lenticular clouds was seen on Honshu, Japan's largest and most populous island. The rare sighting took place in the city of Fujiyoshida on December 28, Kohki Yamaguchi ...

One commenter suggested that a cap cloud was to blame. Cap clouds, more commonly known as pileus clouds but also referred to as scarf clouds, are small, dome-shaped lenticular clouds.

These one-of-a-kind Lenticular clouds have fooled the best of ’em over the years — including an airborne pilot who saw the disk-shaped object by Mount Rainier of Washington in 1947.

Lenticular clouds are a visible sign of mountain waves in the air, according to the Met Office. However, these waves can be present beyond the clouds and may exist even when no clouds are formed.

“Now if this isn’t a sign I don’t know what is (that God is a woman),” actress Gillian Anderson proclaimed after seeing footage of the pink cloud on social media.

A persistent cloud structure intrigues observers. It has reappeared in the same place for over a century. But why? Named the Taieri Pet, this misty mass has hovered above Otago's mountains in New ...