A Collection of UFO Clouds

Lenticular clouds also called UFO clouds because well, they look like UFOs. It's quite an uncommon phenomenon.

Most of the time they form above mountainous areas when moist air condenses but they can also form in other places with the presence of shear winds.

Here is a gallery of lenticular clouds submitted by various people on Earth Sky and a little bit more information on how these clouds form.

(Images credit: Yaping Wu/Wikimedia Commons; Omnisource5/Wikimedia Commons)


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I believe the main difference between the pre-internet 'selfies' (among which I include painted self portraits) and the selfie phenomenon of today is the massive scale of it. This makes it possible to compare they way we perceive ourselves and want to be perceived. And what do we see when we make those comparisons? We are all te same:

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http://www.avadenticals.org/categories/81.-bubble-gum
http://www.avadenticals.org/categories/59.-duckface
http://www.avadenticals.org/categories/61.-headset
http://www.avadenticals.org/categories/86.-fist
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While this image could certainly be considered the first selfie (*gag*), it is not the first picture of a human being and certainly not the first "light picture". That honour belongs to Nicéphore Niepcé, with his "View from the window at Le Gras".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_from_the_Window_at_Le_Gras
The first known photograph of a person is from 1838, by Joseph-Louis Daguerre. It is of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris, and shows a street scene devoid of people except for an unknown gentleman standing and having his shoes shined. He was the only one in the scene standing still long enough to be captured by the nearly 10-minute exposure.
http://petapixel.com/2010/10/27/first-ever-photograph-of-a-human-being/
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