Note: The following three pictures are indicative of what the scientific community refers to as "Cloud Corona." The iridescent colors are the result of minute ice crystals in the cloud body, reflecting from the last rays at the precise angle from the setting sun. The intensity of the colors in these photos result from being taken at a higher altitude, which causes less atmospheric particle scattering. - Blog host

"An Amorphous Aetherial Encounter"

"Saturn's Satellite"

"The Dragon and the Dog"

This photographic image reminds us of the celestial abode of the gods, as depicted by quintessential Chinese landscape painters such as Jing Hao ( 855 - 915 a.d. ). Hao began painting in the later years of the Tang Dynasty, and his depiction of misty mountains and diaphanous clouds parallels the vaporous figures captured in this photo.

"Mother Ship and Baby." This is the first photo in a series of three; only two shown are here to demonstrate the dissipation of the lower smaller cloud (as seen in the bottom photo). This substantiates that these photos have not been altered by any computer-generated means.

Lenticular UFO-type cloud, as seen hovering near Mount Rainier sunset, July 1991. Estimated diameter of cloud is approximately 24 miles, from tip to tip. This measurement has been judged by the lower circumference of Mount Rainier, according to the Wonderland Trail of 90 miles in circumference.