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Clouds That Look Like Fire

With days getting longer and warmer in the Northern Hemisphere, perhaps you'll get a glimpse, as this very fortunate photographer living in the Northwestern United States did, of what appears to be a fiery rainbow in the sky.

What looks like fire in this beautiful image is actually a circumhorizontal arc, a rarity in the weather world, taken over northern Idaho.

This phenomenon occurs when light passes through wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds and only when the sun is positioned very high in the sky. To make it even more of a rarity, the main component of cirrus clouds -- hexagonal ice crystals -- must be shaped in a specific way and with their faces parallel to the ground.

As you can see in the photo, the crystals were aligned perfectly so that the cloud "lights up" in a beautiful spectrum of colors.



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Posted On May 05, 2007
Chemtrails do this also

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Posted On May 19, 2007
Try doing some of your own research folks: http://www.weatherwars.info/index.php

That so called beautiful cloud is poison. Aluminum and barium w/ microscopic blood, very advanced microbiology in action here.
There is years of information out there on this topic. Absolutely no one will discuss this and I have contacted my own legislatures. I spent 7 years in Army aviation and this is no jet contrail but a cocktail mixed with the JP-8.

The global agenda of population reduction to weather warfare is all wrapped up in one huge global gummet package.  Try find out for your self..........follow the link and read the man's bio........he knows his stuff......

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Posted On May 19, 2007
My husband and I joke when there are no chem trails in the sky, which is a RARE occurrence in Pennsylvania.  We always joke, "I guess no planes are flying today!"  People really need to get their heads out of the sand.

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Posted On May 19, 2007
Those are Chemtrails and should not get any repsect as they are killing us and the earth itself!

Wake up Mercola and don't post such articles!

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Posted On Jun 16, 2007
Gray Stroke, the website you submitted is all messed up. The content isn't there as it's missing the files somehow.

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Posted On May 18, 2007
I witnessed this creation in Post Falls, Idaho, and I tell ya, the picture is for real.  It was a Kodak moment for a lot a people.  But as gorgeous as the picture is, the real thing took my breath away.  People just stopped in their tracks and watched the sky as the event unfolded. 

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Posted On May 20, 2007
Hey you're close by.  I'm in the Spokane Valley!  I also saw these.  They went directly over my house.  We were just getting in the car, I grabbed the camera and got several pics of this.  Never seen anything like it!

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Posted On May 04, 2007
With photoshop, or the refraction of of spectrum light from a camera lens, I always wonder if some of these pictures are
touched up'?

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Posted On May 04, 2007
I also have the same thought.  But I enjoy them anyways.

Do you see duckies?.......

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Posted On May 04, 2007
I see no "duckies", however I always learn about new QUACKS in the food, beverage, governmental regulatory, pharmaceutical, chemical, and other realms, from Doc Mercola's posts, DAILY, at Vital Votes....

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I see a duckie driving a racecar under the fire....what a wonderful photograph!!!

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Posted On May 19, 2007
I personally witnessed a fire cloud in March of this year.  I live in the Mohave desert next to a mountain range.  We were joining another homeschool family at the playground and all of the kids noticed it right away.  It did appear in high cirrus clouds and the sun was directly overhead.  We had no idea what it was because it doesn't look like the typical rainbow, and we had not received any precipitation.  We came home and searched the Internet and found this photo and definition.  The mountain range had received a fresh dusting of snow the night before.  So no, this photo looks exactly like what we saw and no touch-ups required.  Because of our location and weather patterns, we are anxious to see such a phenomenon again.  I will say that I don't think my camera (or my photography skills) could have captured the brilliant colors so well.

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Posted On May 19, 2007
That looks like a chemtrail. When Dennis Kucinich was asked whether chemtrails were real, he responded "yes". He has introduced legislation that would open this information up to the public but it got shut down.

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