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10-28-2008, 02:42 AM
this evening, after sunset for about 20min, many football fields in size out over the bay of bellingham the clouds formed a sweet landscape image. A very good artist could probably paint this well. Looked like a valley and mountain range in snow and moonlight. I could look at it as a desert or something else, but I am good at seeing many things from one image. Never seen a 3-d image like this in the sky before. Below is more details and speculation:
Just after sunset on bellingham bay the view from my deck near downtown was the most amazing i seen yet. The sky was dark blue through white and about half filled with clouds, but in a very interesting way. The shading from light to dark in the clouds was such that perspective and lighting were as detailed and beautiful as a painting. It looked like a REALLY good painting of a mountain ridge separating two valleys. There were rolling hills leading up to steep semi-shaded terrain to a higher plain. looked like a snow covered mountain area in moonlight. It could have been a desert or ocean, as I'm able to see different things in the same image, painting or clouds. It lasted for about 10-20 min and was very large. Hard to tell how big or how far away but maybe 1-2km and 300 by 200 meters (much larger than a football field) Thousands of other people could have seen it, but I stared at the horizon for a while before I was able to see it. Like looking at a magic eye. I stare at the sky a lot and am good at seeing like that. I don't know if anyone else recognized it or if it was natural or not. maybe these are common with the right lighting and you just have to be observant.
I called it 4-d because as it got darker the image changed. I watched the sunset, then watched the moon set on a snowy mountain landscape. But the image faded as this happened. Lasted 10-20min. Then atleast 3 emergency vehicles turned on sirens around the city and drove fast scaring me. haha
Just after sunset on bellingham bay the view from my deck near downtown was the most amazing i seen yet. The sky was dark blue through white and about half filled with clouds, but in a very interesting way. The shading from light to dark in the clouds was such that perspective and lighting were as detailed and beautiful as a painting. It looked like a REALLY good painting of a mountain ridge separating two valleys. There were rolling hills leading up to steep semi-shaded terrain to a higher plain. looked like a snow covered mountain area in moonlight. It could have been a desert or ocean, as I'm able to see different things in the same image, painting or clouds. It lasted for about 10-20 min and was very large. Hard to tell how big or how far away but maybe 1-2km and 300 by 200 meters (much larger than a football field) Thousands of other people could have seen it, but I stared at the horizon for a while before I was able to see it. Like looking at a magic eye. I stare at the sky a lot and am good at seeing like that. I don't know if anyone else recognized it or if it was natural or not. maybe these are common with the right lighting and you just have to be observant.
I called it 4-d because as it got darker the image changed. I watched the sunset, then watched the moon set on a snowy mountain landscape. But the image faded as this happened. Lasted 10-20min. Then atleast 3 emergency vehicles turned on sirens around the city and drove fast scaring me. haha