7th Oct 2009, West Moscow, Tornado report. 21st Oct 2009 Romanian ‘freak’ cloud

Of course this was no tornado. You have seen the film, you have heard the commentary, but have you any idea what this thing is? Meteorologists exclaim that it is a freak cloud pattern.

If a real, live ET landed in one of these meteorologists’ back yard in full view, they would  call the police and say some nutcase with a fancy hot air balloon was trespassing on their property!

This phenomenon is starting to appear regularly though. Here’s the one one from Romania from last week.

(There are some pretty funny theories on the internet about this, but I think the best one I read is that this is some kind of soul-sucking alien abduction vortex thingy! Give me a break.)

Circular clouds have appeared in the skies for a long time and fall under various categories of rationally explainable phenomenon like ‘lenticular’ clouds or even upper atmosphere explosions! Take for example this cloud formation from way back in 1963, which was called an upper atmosphere ‘cloud ring of mystery’ by Life Magazine at the time. Some people have called this an exploded Thor missile. Others  base an entire religion around it, calling it a sign.

The phenomenon has been appearing all over the globe and at various times, but it has always been associated in some way with what could be considered extraterrestrial activity. Take for example this 1963 image which is associated with a man who claimed to have been given an astonishing gift of accurate clairvoyance, prophetic vision and healing by what he called an ‘angel’. Having come from a christian background, Reverend William Branham (1909 – 1965) took the christian world by storm with his amazing ability to tell thousands of random audience members in his world wide healing campaigns and preaching engagements, specific details about their lives. Things such as name, address, what they were praying about specifically moments ago and what sickness they have were so common and successful that Branham became the datum against which all other faith healers would be measured.

Reports of limbs growing back , cancers dropping off  faces, cures of all kinds and astonishing manifestations of ‘God’s power’ were common place with this man’s public ministry, which more or less spearheaded the ‘faith healing’ movement in christian circles. It ended in ’65 when Branham died in a car accident, however people still follow his teachings today, which are considered fringe, eccentric and cult-like by secular Christians.

I believe it was the deceased science fiction author Arthur C Clark who said that a sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic; a brilliant observation and one which should be considered when we hear of extraordinary things like ‘miracles’ so called, be they human tricks or ‘angelic’ ones! Speaking of which, here is another example of a similar looking phenomenon to the ‘exploded Thor rocket’ / ‘Angel Cloud’ formation from 1963. This one is from 2007!

What do I think? These regular and recent ‘vortexes’ or whatever you want to call them, can be classified under the same heading as the Chinese public Purple mountain mass UFO sighting; an experiment to gauge public reaction to imminent disclosure. Fascinating stuff.  Who’s major city will they pick next I wonder!!

Ooh Ooh Pick me, pick me, Vancouver!!