Ghostly Brocken Spectre phenomenon on Mount Rainier caught on Film

A Brocken spectre spectre, is the apparently enormous and magnified shadow of an observer, cast upon the upper surfaces of clouds opposite the sun. meteorologists call it a glory.

The "spectre" is the shadowy figure - the rainbouw colored glow and rings resulting from the diffraction of light are a glory centered directly opposite the sun at the antisolar point.

Image: Brocken Spectre phenomenon on top of Mount Rainier.

The phenomenon can appear on any misty mountainside or cloud bank, even when seen from an aeroplane.

They are most easily seen when one is riding on the shadow side of an aircraft above the clouds. The ghost can appear to move because of the movement of the cloud layer and variations in density within the cloud.

Video 1: Witness spotted the rare Brocken Spectre phenomenon on top of Mount Rainier last September (2015).

 

Video 2: Another incredible Brocken Spectre phenomenon caught from a plane window above the misty Norwegian hills on December 20, 2015.

 

Rare colorful ‘cloudships’ appear above the Arctic Circle

This week, sky watchers are reporting an outbreak of rare colorful ‘cloudships’ in the skies above the Arctic Circle.

Strange looking clouds with straight edges and matching angled corners forming rectangles?

Aliens are hiding their spacecraft in colorful clouds these days?

According to Spaceweather, the clouds are polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs). Unlike normal grey-white clouds, which hug Earth's surface at altitudes of only 5 to 10 km, PSCs float through the stratosphere (25 km) and they are fantastically colorful.

Also known as "nacreous" or "mother of pearl" clouds, the icy structures form in the lower stratosphere when temperatures drop to around minus 85ºC. High-altitude sunlight shining through tiny ice particles ~10µm across produce the characteristic bright iridescent colors by diffraction and interference.

Credit: Truls Tiller photographed these beautiful clouds over Tromsø, Norway, on December 16, 2015.

Weird lake object - What is this thing?

A weird dark circle in the middle of a frozen lake filmed somewhere in Utah appears to have strange ice crystals embedded throughout.

Users on social media have various theories, guesses ranging from a viral marketing campaign, crystalline frost to organism interfere with the crystallization of the ice.

But what is this thing?

 

Weird natural phenomenon in Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter desert

There is a prophecy that one of the sign of the end of times is that the land of Arabs will turn into rivers and gardens as it was before.

The incredible footage below appears to show a river in the middle of the desert made of sand.

Viewers aren’t exactly sure what caused this outrageous natural phenomenon but it is said the region was hit by a rain and ice storm last November 2015, which led to a frozen river of ice water raging through the desert.

As a man watches the phenomenon in disbelief, he scoops up a hand full from the river and we can see the river is actually made up of countless small pebbles of hail.

Whether the phenomenon is caused by a rain and hail storm remains a question but everyone can agree that it is very strange to say the least.