Eyewitnesses said they couldn’t believe their eyes as the cloud slowly appeared in the sky near Palm Springs. Immediately, the images of the UFO cloud were widely shared across social networks.
“The cloud is exactly like the image that often appears in sci-fi movies that I’ve seen before,” one user commented.
A similar scene played out in the Coachella valley. Dr James Danoff-Burg, conservation director at the Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert, said he was working as a guide for a group of tourists when they all looked up to the sky when they saw the clouds. UFO clouds.
However, according to experts, it is a common type of cloud that seems to regularly appear in the nature reserve of the zoo. The phenomenon is a lenticular cloud, described as looking like “stacked pancakes”.
“That day was special because we saw a rare cloud with three layers stacked on top of each other,” Danoff-Burg said.
National Weather Service meteorologist Cindy Palmer said last year that lenticular clouds, which usually appear during the winter months, are formed by winds blowing over hills and mountains, when the clouds This cloud was detected over the Bay Area.
“Everybody has noticed that winter winds usually blow in one direction,” explains Palmer. When the wind moves over the mountains, the air lifts, the moisture condenses and forms clouds.