Dramatic Timelapse Shows Develpment of Supercell "Mothership" Storm Cloud in Wyoming

By Nancy Atkinson - May 19, 2014 at 1:14 PM UTC | Planetary Science

Yikes! The Mothership has returned to Wyoming

a la

"

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

!" Yesterday a gigantic storm cloud spun into a flying saucer shape in eastern Wyoming near Newcastle and a storm-chasing group called

Basehunters

captured it all on film. Luckily, by the end of the footage, the storm dissipates.

You can see some images from

Twitter

below:

Here is the incredible #timelapse from the supercell in WY yesterday! #wywx#stormchasinghttps://t.co/TchlEIBe8tpic.twitter.com/v7p1IGM3jA — Basehunters Chasing (@Basehunters)

Horses in the bottom right were running away from the storm. Not too long after hail started falling. pic.twitter.com/TnMcObMEWv — Mark Ellinwood (@markellinwood)

Source:

Capital Weather Blog

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Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson is a space journalist and author with a passion for telling the stories of people involved in space exploration and astronomy. She is currently retired from daily writing, but worked at Universe Today for 20 years as a writer and editor. She also contributed articles to The Planetary Society, Ad Astra (National Space Society), New Scientist and many other online outlets.

Her 2019 book, "Eight Years to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Missions,” shares the untold stories of engineers and scientists who worked behind the scenes to make the Apollo program so successful, despite the daunting odds against it. Her first book “Incredible Stories From Space: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Missions Changing Our View of the Cosmos” (2016) tells the stories of 37 scientists and engineers that work on several current NASA robotic missions to explore the solar system and beyond.

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