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Don't forget the Halloween Blue Moon.
In 2001, (click here) ghosts and goblins in Central and Pacific time zones trick-or-treated by the light of a full Moon, but a Halloween full Moon hadn’t appeared for everyone in all time zones since 1944!...
Below is a winning photo. It is a contradiction in terms. Clouds are moving about with a random pattern and all of a sudden there is a saucer-like cloud, perfectly formed regardless of the winds below it.
By Brandon Spektor
...A ghostly white saucer (click here) hovers over the peaks of El Chaltén in southern Argentina. As wind thrashes the nearby clouds, the saucer remains fixed above the craggy summit, anchored in the sky like a mothership surveying the hills below....
