Is This a UFO?

Its unidentifiable from these photos and its in the air floating or flying who knows. So it fits in the UFO category so yes.

I believe that's Wonder Woman.

The first shot looks like a rocket launch. The rest? Huumm, Magic Mushroom?

I like tghe Mushroom.

but the top one no, not rocket but balloon,, we do these flights for schools,

http://www.qsl.net/wb9sbd/educators.html

Here is a video from one of our last flights at 124,000 feet.
http://www.qsl.net/wb9sbd/100k.html

It's a bird! Its a plane! .....no! wait! it is wonder woman! I almos...wait a minute, there's something else there... its....superman AND Wonder Woman...What are they doing? .... fighting?... no....too friendl.....Oh my Gosh! Eyemuffs kids!

NSS Your first photo appears to be a lightning bolt rising up from a thunderstorm. The rest of the photos I believe to be something entirely different. Jerrell

I think it was a balloon carrying the celtics' hopes of repeating as NBA champs.

Isn't that a lawn chair strapped at the bottom?

inverted flying "wang" in a condom.

"Beat it" whanker. (I couldn't resist that).

If it wasn't for the (apparent) size, I would say it 'could be' a weather balloon whos top has partially collapsed and become twisted in a wind shear condition.

Howsomever, if aliens are smart enough to make it this far, a cloud or cloud-like camouflage would keep the subjects from being unduly startled. And I have seen small clouds exhibit erratic behavior in relation to other nearby clouds.

That said; See the movie '2012', followed by 'The Bruce' in 'Armageddon'. Maybe they're here to observe our demise. I'll worry about it when they start raiding the garden.

Clean your lens before shooting a picture

I typhoon which is High?

How about like a tornado...a particular atmospheric condition which gives rise to a vapourous cloud in a small tight rotating formation. what you need are thermal differences, maybe a jetstream, and an updraft of heat... I dunno. was it moving horizontally? or stationary?

Its the result of the operation of the new space based laser system targetting tertiary targets.

Misssles testing by shooting down targets by North Korean Scientists,

That look more like a cloud than a UFO

Sprites?

Umm, not sure the tech term/name

When you get a lightning storm, it has been observed (from space) not just lightning from cloud to ground, but also what looks like from the same cloud to the Magnetosphere (??) or some place up high?

could the other shots be something similar to this, but from refraction/reflection from the atmosphere/space barrier?

Yes it is an UFO [unidentified flying object], because if one knew what it was, it wouldn't be an UFO. That is the definition of an UFO!

Abbreviations. Bah!

The Unidentified Object does not appear to be flying, since no lifting surfaces are apparent; therefore, I would call it a UO.

Whats the "Lifting surface" on a hot air balloon?

You don't need lifting surfaces to fly, just enough thrust,

"Anything can be made to fly with enough thrust"

Oh, sorry, I think there is a technical difference between flying (as a bird, glider, etc.) and floating, as in lighter-than-air devices. Agreed... there are different methods of moving through space (gaseous or not) via different means of propulsion. Perhaps, I was being too technical.

Unidentified Floating Object, then.

At first glance, it appears a kind of contrail, or chemtrail.

I found this link with some photos, but at a glance, it does appear some form of vapor ... discharged from what??? Well, now, that is the question.

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/atmosphere/q0266.shtml

Kind regards ...

Maybe they're contrails seen in perspective (so not as vertical as they appear). I wonder if any aircraft burn fuel for short periods, or, maybe there was a "layer" of slightly dodgy fuel in one of the tanks.

At the bottom of the link you supplied there's an invite to submit a question: I've asked them to take a look at this thread and comment if possible.

I don't know what it is either, if anyone finds out can they post and let us all know!

Sorry if this is a repeat. My puter is doing strange things when I hit the submit key.

Maybe this guy upgraded to a new toy.

http://dvice.com/archives/2009/04/largest-flying.php

Few people know that the planet realy do hang on strings -like in the old science fiction movies- what you see here is the place where the string attaches,

For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"

From the classic star trek ..episode 63

Oh crap, they've found me out. I guess it's time to move on again!

If it's something that is "flying" and you are not able to identify it....UFO.

It's either a cumulus cloud or a brain cloud (see the movie Joe Versus the Volcano)

OMG, You found it! that is the can opener being used by the aliens from the planet XYZZY to open our ozone layer. Now if we can just stop them...

In the photo's the plume appears to be running against the bands of clouds. These pictures raise as many questions as they answer. I for one will be following the discussion, there has to be a credible explaination!

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

Don't know about the top picture, but the others look like experimental balloon designs to me.

EOSS is located in Denver, so Colorado is ARHAB territory.

ah... the plot thickens!

Smoke signals?

of course UFO's do not exist, we have been told that for years. But, at one time in our history we were also told the world was flat. This was held as truth by scholars and laymen alike. I think what the real truth is, no one likes questions that do not have a proven answer. All you have to do is look at the 20th century at the strides forward in areas that only a few years earlier would have been thought impossible. So yes I know UFO's do not exist, and if I keep looking for them I might fall of the edge of the earth. But what if there are??

I don't know who said it first, but, this/these quotes pretty well sum up the enormity of the main question.

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering" Arthur C. Clarke

"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." R. Buckminster Fuller

UFO has become a synonym for "extra-terrestrial flying object", whereas this is not necessarily the case by definition. The problem with English as a sproken language is that TLAs [three-letter abbreviations] trip merrily off the tongue far easier than FLAs [four-letter abbereviations].

All in favour of the abbreviation ETFO, please join the queue on the left.....

<...UFO's do not exist...>

See #16.

Well opinions vary, and all I can really say is......wait for it;

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

i think our solar system is a no fly zone for aliens in my opinion, as humans have the unhealthy habit to destroy that which they can't understand.

is it an angel fart?

Yes, it's a UFO.

UFO means Unidentified Flying Object. If you can't tell what it is, and it's flying, guess what, it's a UFO.

I just happened across this:

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn17178-extraordinary-clouds/7

And I found this:

"This June 20, 2006 photo provided on Monday, June 8, 2009 and taken by Jane Wiggins from a downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa office building shows what may become the first new cloud type to be recognized by scientists since 1951. (AP Photo/Jane Wiggins)"

Continue_reading_here

http://www.physorg.com/news163990239.html

Nice link, do these cloud formations always appear in numbers or can they appear alone?