At first glance you might think aliens have landed in an enormous flying saucer ? but there?s no need to panic just yet. Because the extraordinary sight is nothing more than a rare cloud formation known as a Lenticular cloud ? or cap cloud. The bizarre lens-shaped ?saucer? forms when moist air flows over mountains such as this one, Klyuchevskaya Sopka in far east Russia.
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