MAYDAY! Bizarre, UFO-Shaped Cloud Looked On Fire Over Idaho

The recent clear, warmer southern Idaho weather unveiled a rather odd-shaped cloud in the sky Wednesday afternoon that some of you in Twin Falls might have noticed. With several days of sunshine and increasing temperatures ahead for the region, the conditions will be ideal for cloud gazing.

Eighty-degree temperatures and clear skies aren't the norm for southern Idaho in mid-March, but that's exactly what those of us living here are going to face in the coming days. The clouds overhead will be more wispy and white than swelling with moisture and gray as we approach the official start of spring next week (March 20).

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Odd-Shaped, UFO Cloud Seen In Sky Over Southern Idaho Wednesday

Did you see it? It sort of looked like a scene from Mars Attacks or War of the Worlds.

I was coming home from errands around 2:30 P.M. Wednesday and my wife pointed out the cloud that looked like an alien craft sputtering downward toward Earth with a blown engine. There was even a trail of stringy clouds that resembled smoke above the disc-shaped cloud.

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I'm no cloud expert, but after researching it online, I'd say it was part Cumulus and part Cirrocumulus (thin), and together they looked a lot like an out-of-control UAP just seconds from impacting the desert floor outside Eden somewhere.

These feathery, thinner clouds don't typically last but 30 to 40 minutes, according to the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, so I'm glad I was able to get a picture of it before it disappeared forever.