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 ...

A recent satellite image captured the reemergence of a unique, UFO-like cloud, known as the "Taieri Pet," which appears above ...

Have you ever gazed up at the sky and wondered why clouds look so incredibly different from one another? One moment, you spot ...

An Air Force investigation later concluded that what Arnold really saw were disc-shaped wave clouds called lenticular clouds, which are not uncommon in the Cascades and on top of Mt. Rainier ...

They're not an X-file, but lenticular clouds inspire awe wherever they form. Their tendency to look like swirling loops that hover in place spawned UFO reports for decades, but the truth behind ...

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 ...

A massive cloud shaped like a flying saucer covered the top of California's Mount Shasta on Jan. 22, attracting the attention of many, especially shutterbugs who posted images that wowed the ...

The Lenticular clouds suspiciously stick out because they hardly move across the sky and only minutely change shape over time, according to weather experts. Along with the mountains of Washington ...

Lenticular clouds are known for their curved, flying saucer-like appearance. Lenticular clouds are often orb-shaped, and the one in Turkey was orange-tinted. Sections ...

Lenticular clouds are "associated with waves in the atmosphere that develop when relatively stable, fast-moving air is forced up and over a topographic barrier," says the U.S. National Weather ...

more commonly known as pileus clouds but also referred to as scarf clouds, are small, dome-shaped lenticular clouds. These particular clouds form when dry air around a tall cloud or mountain rises ...

forming clouds on the windward side and evaporating clouds on the leeward side. This is called a lenticular cloud, because it looks a little like a lens. If conditions are right, when the layers ...