Aliens, Ancestors, or Just a Cloud? You Decide…

Ireland – Cloud Formation

What the hell is this thing in the sky?!

Honestly, for a moment, I thought I was looking at the beginning of a nuclear blast. Then I decided it had to be aliens making a flamboyant entrance. But the “official” word is… It’s just an anvil cloud.

Now, maybe I’m supposed to nod politely and accept that answer. “Nothing to see here, folks, just a big thundercloud bumping its head on the ceiling of the sky.” But if you know me? I can’t help but squint a little harder and ask… really?

Because look at it. That shape is too perfect. Too symmetrical. Like it was engineered or sculpted. Nature is wild, yes, but nature is also messy. This feels like something else. Like a hidden hand tweaking the weather dial, or a scene straight out of a sci-fi film.

And yet… there’s a strange beauty to it. Like a doorway to another world cracked open just long enough for us to notice. Maybe it’s not aliens or secret experiments at all. Perhaps it’s just the universe having a laugh, dropping a reminder that we don’t have it all figured out, no matter how clever we think we are.

The truth is, whether it’s a cloud, a sign, or a spaceship cloaked in vapor, it made me stop. It made me look up. And maybe that’s the whole point. To remember that above our daily dramas, the sky is staging a show far grander than anything we could ever invent.

Still though… if a little green man had leaned out and waved, I wouldn’t have been surprised one bit. 😂

Mae🧡


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17 responses to “Aliens, Ancestors, or Just a Cloud? You Decide…”

  1. Mae, I love how you hold the mystery without flattening it.

    The “anvil” label is prosaic, but the feeling you had makes sense. A big cumulonimbus does that “engineered” trick because the updraft slams into the tropopause – an abrupt ceiling – then spreads outward in all directions at the same height. That boundary is so stable it irons the top flat and crisp, and the little dome poking up is an overshooting top where the storm briefly punches higher. It looks like a mushroom cloud for the same reason a mushroom cloud looks like itself: a hot, buoyant plume meeting a stubborn lid. Same physics, very different origins.

    Nature isn’t always messy; give it constraints and it draws with a ruler – hexagonal snowflakes, ripple marks, lenticular saucers, and, apparently, your doorway in the sky.

    What I’m most taken by is your last line: it made you stop and look up. There’s a quiet contract in that – between certainty and wonder. When you catch these sky-moments, do they feel like omens, or more like permission to pause? And if a sign is simply the world interrupting us, how might you let that interruption linger a little longer the next time – without needing to decide whether it’s alien, atmospheric, or a private joke from the universe?

    Either way, you caught a scene with immaculate stagecraft. The sky does austerely designed drama better than any of us.

    Bob x

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    1. Bob, you’ve such a beautiful way of explaining things, both the science and the wonder. I love how you can take the mechanics of it all and still leave space for the mystery. For me, it really was a “doorway in the sky,” not in the sense of needing to label it, but in that sudden feeling of being nudged to pause and notice. Sometimes it feels like an omen, sometimes like simple permission to stop in my tracks. Maybe it’s both, depending on what I need in that moment.

      And you’re right, nature has a way of showing her precision when she wants,ruler-straight edges and immaculate stagecraft, as you said. I suppose I’m learning to let those interruptions linger, without rushing to explain them away. Thank you for helping me keep the balance between certainty and wonder.

      Mae 🧡

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  2. Dear Mae
    I found your post quite interesting.

    Thanks for liking my post ‘Aamti’. 🙏

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  3. Interesting post and thoughts, Mae

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    1. Thank you Mags x I am a bit out there sometimes 😂🧡

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  4. Dear
    I found your post quite interesting.

    Thanks for liking my post ‘SilenceTwo’. 🙏

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  5. I think it’s the whip cream from a coffee shop going berserk

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    1. lol Joseph! Love it.. 🧡

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  6. I am obsessed with the sky and that is an amazing cloud (or whatever it is!) And look there in the bottom right corner. It’s either Mickey Mouse or the state of Ohio, lol.

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    1. Haha, I love that Jean! Once you see Mickey Mouse, you can’t unsee him. 😂 The sky is the best canvas, clouds, omens, cartoons, and all. I swear it never fails to sneak in a bit of humor with the wonder. 🧡

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  7. Awesome pic. The greenman bit was pure fertile imagination. Loved it. Such views are humbling and epiphanic.

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    1. Haha, yes, the little Green man was having his moment! Nature loves her cameos. 🧡

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  8. It’s too real …..it is definitely a alien space ship ,Spirit Guide if you meet aliens ,do let me know ,i must have to come to Ireland then 😂😂.

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    1. 😂 Deal! If I bump into aliens, you’ll be the first to know, though don’t be surprised if they’ve already been to Ireland. Between the stone circles, fairy forts, and mysterious lights, I’m pretty sure they feel right at home here. 👽

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    Joey Jones

    Omg! Is that for real?

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    1. Absolutely really and I have lots of clouds like this! Usually up the mountain. This was just outside a major town. Make you wonder Joey x

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    Joey Jones

    Whoa!

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