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Whatzit for Fredski

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12/17/2015 3:24 PM

Ghost of Christmas Future?

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12/17/2015 3:25 PM

Nacreous cloud.

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12/17/2015 5:24 PM

I thought they were treating for that with Simethicone.

Good thing we're not downwind.

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12/17/2015 6:58 PM

Agreed. Se also #7 (from Drew).

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12/17/2015 4:42 PM

I'd say time exposure of Northern Lights, but the smoke tends to contradict that idea.
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12/17/2015 4:47 PM

Remnants of a ballistic or other missile explosion.

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12/17/2015 5:22 PM

its high in the sky, I'd go missile or rocket
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12/17/2015 5:35 PM

High altitude ice crystals refracting the last of the sunlight at sunset or sunrise.

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12/17/2015 5:51 PM

The crystalline entity come to Earth. Flee for your lives!

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12/17/2015 6:28 PM

Hole in the ozone directly over TCM's furnace....

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12/18/2015 8:40 AM

GA

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12/17/2015 11:26 PM

Barium missile for studying upper atmosphere.

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12/18/2015 2:32 AM

Crack in the UV/ND lens filter?

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12/18/2015 8:07 AM

looks like a google earth mapped geophysics overlay

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12/18/2015 8:21 AM

Way back in the 60's, NASA was sending rockets up from Wallops Island to do atmospheric tests. We'd see things that looked a lot like this over south central Pennsylvania. I still have the "UFO" pictures I took of them. Quite fascinating, and/or disturbing until we got an explanation for the phenomenon.

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12/18/2015 9:30 AM

Would you be able to replicate this in the lab?

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12/18/2015 10:07 AM

Laser light show from Al Gore's birthday party with the theme; "My colors do run."

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12/18/2015 11:55 AM

If the picture was not clearly of the sky, I would say an oblique light photograph of an oil sheen on a very calm pond, but since it is not, it is obviously a special type of cloud formation that has exceedingly symmetric ice crystals that result in 1/4 wavelength reflection of incident low angle sunlight, hence the notices interference patterns. In such a formation, the variable thickness of the cloud results in various colors.

A very interesting side feature is the sunlight cast on one of the mountains in the background below this cloud that is apparently critical angle reflected to illuminate only the one mountain, and not the others.

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12/18/2015 7:24 PM

That'll be the tractor beam kicking in!

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12/18/2015 8:30 PM

Geez, did Darth Vader fart again?

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