UFO-like clouds: an interesting natural phenomenon was spotted in the sky over Ukraine. Photo

A rare natural phenomenon has been spotted in the sky over Ukraine. Clouds that look very similar to UFOs are called lenticular or lenticular.

This phenomenon was filmed and posted on Facebook by mountain rescuer Vasyl Fitsak in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. According to the man, the natural phenomenon was filmed in the village of Osmoloda, located in the Gorgany massif.

Lenticular or lenticular clouds form on the crests of airwaves. They are most common in areas with strong winds and high mountains. Usually, lenticular clouds appear on the leeward side of mountain ranges, and sometimes behind individual peaks, at an altitude of 2 to 15 km.

In a comment to UNIAN, Nataliia Ptukha, a forecaster at the Ukrainian Weather Center, said that the video posted by Fitsak does show clouds that somewhat resemble lenticular clouds, although this is not quite a classic version of this type of cloud. "There is a certain nature of such a lenticular cloud in this video," she confirmed.

"A characteristic feature of these clouds is that they do not move, no matter how strong the wind is, but hang in the air like a UFO. And they can hang in one place for hours.

According to the forecaster, these clouds look motionless, as if frozen in time. "They stabilize in one place and, accordingly, appear when intense wind flows flow around an obstacle. Most often, it is a mountain range, a mountain, a plateau," explained Ptukha.

The expert also noted that the appearance of such clouds may indicate the approach of an atmospheric front. "Right now, we have such intense air flows from the northern latitudes over Ukraine, an atmospheric front is passing through. So, of course, such clouds can form. But not in such classic and large-scale manifestations, as is more typical for them," said Nataliia Ptukha.

The Ukrhydrometeorologist emphasized that lenticular clouds are a rare phenomenon, and only a few people are lucky enough to see them. "But we're not talking about the small ones like in the video – not everyone may pay attention to them. But the large-scale ones that hover over the peaks, the classic, large lenticular clouds, are rarely seen here," Ptukha said.

Interestingly, airplane pilots try to stay away from lenticular clouds to avoid turbulence. Hang-gliders, on the other hand, purposefully fly into them to catch the airflow for several kilometers.

Some people believe that lenticular clouds form in places of special strength, where there are changes in gravity (the force lines of the Earth's magnetic field) and a powerful biomagnetic flux. It is these changes and the flux that, they say, swirl air vapors and form these special highly cumulus clouds.

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