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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Thursday, during a beautiful and otherwise sunny jaunt, hikers in Argentina’s Andes caught a prime example of a stacked lenticular cloud, which appeared to rotate in place like a saucer ...

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 ...

When I saw the picture, it was clearly an example of a lenticular cloud. In May 2023, I actually wrote a piece in Forbes about five meteorological things often called UFOs, and lenticular clouds ...

Sanity did prevail with Jess Mewes correctly identifying the cloud phenomenon as lenticular clouds. The MetService explains the formation of these clouds as forming when strong winds blowing ...

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 ...