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October clouds 4: the mothership has returned

A lenticular cloud with amazing structure takes form at sunrise just east of the Continental Divide. These clouds form when strong jets of wind encounter obstacles such as mountains, and are forced upward, forming cloud bands, or in this case isolated lenticular clouds (grossly oversimplifying). Alternatively this is actually a giant UFO come to take samples of Earthlings back to its home planet. Or if you prefer, this is actually a giant cell cleaved off of Gaia (note the organelles and cilia), floating above the rest of its corporeal self.

 

Another hypothesis, promoted by many insightful comments, is that this is a whale... perhaps the very whale from Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy??

www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=h02a2HSB58M

 

The details in this cloud were amazing and very transient. The features would form and disappear in just a few minutes. The shutter speed is slow enough that there is movement in these features. (i)

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Uploaded on October 30, 2017
Taken on October 17, 2017