My first post....can anyone tell me what this is?

Hello ATS. I've been a long time lurker, but due to some recent experiences I've decided that it's now time to share some things with you guys.

For the past year or so I've witnessed strange activities in the sky. I live in Arizona near a very prominent military base and have kept a keen eye on all such activities. Besides an increase in military presence across the skies night after night, I've seen a lot of strange lights at night that I cannot attribute to any aircraft I know, as well as some of the creepiest very deep machine like noises I've ever heard that go across the sky but lack ANY lights with them whatsoever.

I experienced one of these noises the other night around midnight while sitting outside observing the sky. It was very loud and almost plane like, but deeper and grumblier that any plane I've ever heard before. It came from the west, seemed to hover directly above my neighborhood for about 30 seconds, and then shot away to the south. Absolutely no lights accompanied this noise, and looking in the sky I saw nothing. I actually felt a bit terrified by this sound. Has anyone else heard noises like this by chance?

I've contemplated this for awhile, and after doing so I remembered some very interesting pictures I took about a year ago during a monsoon. I was originally trying to capture a rainbow in the sky, but after looking at the pictures on my computer I noticed a strange dislike shape in the clouds. So....I decided to post it on here. Can anyone tell me what this is? (btw, the black thing in the picture is my thumb lol)

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I also inverted the image. It definitely doesn't look like the same color as the clouds.

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Here is another image that's a bit closer.

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Inverted as well.

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This one looks like it's changed shapes.

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Thanks!




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I think you're going to have to try that again. That came across as too much of a thread starter and not a post.Your first post should just be saying hi, how are ya and this is what I'm about. That sort of thing. You're starting a discussion and you can't do that until the 10th or 20th post. Can't remember which.

Welcome aboard though. I'm kinda new too, though I've been reading here for quite some time now.

I dont want to jump the gun but this isnt from YPG in yuma is it? you mentioned az and military base also saw the mountain in the background that looks like you were close to the foothills .. . i could be wrong .. if im not .. yah they have lots of testing out there .

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I love your images, those look wild.

Could just be cloud formation from the rainbow and then the cloud dissipating.

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hmm... not really sure at all... and im not sure if you deleted them (most likely not) but the inverted pics were DELETED. hmmm... who's lookin at those pictures?! *cough cough feds*
Although im not sure what it is, i dont quite think its aliens... could be wrong. Or, it may not be a heavy mass object, but perhaps something to do with weather manipulation.

P.S. You also caught a "glowing cloud" the one's that are "electric blue" like. Nice!

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Hi...welcome to ATS...just so you know...you have to have 20 posts before creating a thread...so this thread of yours will most likely be closed.

I think that perhaps...you may have been seeing...experimental aircraft being tested...by the military.

I did say hello, more like hello plus here's some cool pictures! :]

Ok I tried the inverted images on a different host site. See if you guys can see them now.

And no, I'm not in Yuma. Tucson actually by Davis Monthan, though you are right I am a bit north in the foothills.

oh cool well az has some much fderal land that you have to believe that their testing all kinds of neat things ... also i read about a year ago that a base in az was going to beat a nasa testing site.

Looks like a lenticular cloud to me.

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Thats a hell of a view...

Looks like the rainbow is bouncing off the light on that one cloud.

Ohhhh I believe they're testing lots of strange things out here in the desert. Some pretty weird things happen here on a regular basis lol

A lenticular cloud seems like a plausible explanation if the cloud I was photographing happened to be a lot bigger. This is definitely something smaller and in front of the clouds. Could be refracted light from the rainbow, but the saucer shape is what gets me. Also, in the inverted picture the shape in the sky is not the same color as the rainbow. Does anyone else find that a bit odd?

Originally posted by GnostiChristiaN
Looks like a lenticular cloud to me.

en.wikipedia.org...

Not in the slightest...

Welcome aboard! Cool pics and thanks for sharing. Maybe take them to the UFO forum for more attention, though i doubt their UFO - More than likely a very rare, stunning cloud formation. I'm sure somebody on ATS will know what we're lookign at. Good luck.

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Originally posted by GnostiChristiaN
Looks like a lenticular cloud to me.

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The OP's pics do not look like lenticular clouds - whose main axis is usually close to horizontal - unlike the feature in his picture.

They are usually horizontal but not always.Arizona is well known for lenticular clouds

Originally posted by dashdespatch
They are usually horizontal but not always.Arizona is well known for lenticular clouds

edit on 26-6-2012 by dashdespatch because: (no reason given)

Sure they may be a few degrees off horizontal - this feature is at 45 degrees or more - please show me a lenticular cloud with that kind of angle.

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Its about a third down this page photo dated March 27th 2005 (sorry ive forgotten how to enbed photos!)


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I experienced one of these noises the other night around midnight while sitting outside observing the sky. It was very loud and almost plane like, but deeper and grumblier that any plane I've ever heard before.

Hi FantastikNostalgik , could you please tell me the day / date you heard this sound .
Thanks .