Rare, stunning formation appears over California town
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On Saturday evening, Riverside County residents walked outside to take photos and videos of something they had never quite seen: a massive formation in the sky that loomed directly over their sleepy desert town, evoking images from a 1950s science-fiction novel or fantasy epic. It wasn’t a spaceship descending over Palm Desert; it was a gigantic lenticular cloud that just happened to take perfect form at sunset. According to National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Adams, the craggy...

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