Scud clouds in State College, Pennsylvania, on May 30, 2012. (AccuWeather/Jesse Ferrell) Often called "scary-looking clouds," by meteorologists because viewers reported them as funnel clouds or ...

A UFO-shaped cloud towered over homes in Myanmar, leaving residents stunned. Footage shows the lenticular cloud resembling an alien spaceship behind a puffy mass on April 21.

These are nimbostratus. There are a number of other unique and beautiful cloud types that can form as air rises over mountain slopes and other topography. Lenticular clouds, for example ...

They can occasionally appear flat and layered, so some people also call them pancake clouds. However, their official term is lenticular clouds, which comes from a Latin word that means "lens-like." ...

Some also refer to them as pancake clouds, because they sometimes appear flat and stacked. But they are formally called lenticular clouds, a name originating from a Latin word meaning "lens-like".

People along the Antrim coast woke up to unusual cloud formations on Friday, reminiscent of scenes from a science-fiction film. Lenticular clouds combined with the morning sunrise to create these ...

Lenticular clouds combined with the morning sunrise on the Antrim coast People along the Antrim coast woke up to unusual cloud formations on Friday, reminiscent of scenes from a science-fiction film.

We received several pics of this really cool UFO looking storm this morning. This is a lenticular storm cloud and its not that common to see,' Higgins Storm Chasing wrote to their Facebook page on ...

So, if you live somewhere that gets frequent thunderstorms in the summertime, you may be more likely to see these ...

forming clouds on the windward side and evaporating clouds on the leeward side. This is called a lenticular cloud, because it looks a little like a lens. If conditions are right, when the layers ...

But the cloud isn't anything sinister. It's actually a rare phenomenon known as a lenticular cloud. Civil servant Dave Pickett, 38, and his son Blake, 7, snapped the moment before it quickly ...