It isn't surprising that NASA is getting ribbed for using that approach in addressing a strange halo over China.
There was a rainbow-colored tower sitting atop a cloud of dark exhaust that appeared over Pu'er in August.
Clouds, uniformly sized water droplets and diffracted sunlight are what NASA explained in the photo.
More than 62,000 reactions and 1,400 comments later, it's clear that not everyone thinks it was accidental.
An explosion, toxic chemicals, and a Chinese government hologram experiment are among the alternative theories.
They suggested a government cover-up because they had no doubt it was a flying object.
There are aliens in that cloud.
It is either a man-made substance or aliens. "You pick," Depiazzi told her.
I haven't seen or heard of these for a long time.
NASA did not address the theories but did give a more detailed explanation of what it called an iridescent pileus cloud.
A pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight, is behind this dark cloud.
Unusual cloud ripples above the pileus cloud were also captured. The formation of a rare pileus cloud capping a common cumulus cloud is an indication that the lower cloud is expanding upward and could potentially become a storm.
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