Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Doughnuts Over Moscow

Last night, I tuned in late to Coast-to-Coast AM with George Noory, and they were discussing this halo in the clouds over Moscow. Discussion by UFO expert Nick Pope was so dilatory and fraught with fake stage excitement it made me itch. "No meteorologist can explain it," he said. "Ask me," I thought. I know what's causing it even though I haven't even seen a picture of the phenomenon yet.

When ice crystals are dropped, from above, into supercooled liquid water stratus clouds, they will slowly consume the droplets and punch an ice-crystal-filled hole through the cloud deck that can be very circular in shape and be very-interesting to look at as well. The ice crystal seeds could come naturally from a descending ice crystal tail from cirrus clouds above (cirrus uncinus), could be artificially-seeded by cloud researchers, or even simply drop from an aircraft passing above. Other such holes have been observed in numerous other places. It's fun and pretty easy to do too, if you have an aircraft at your disposal. It's Science! - there is no reason to worry about Alien Mother Ships or what British Intelligence thinks.

Next freakin' question, please.....

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