'UFO Clouds’ Hover Over Cape Town Skies in South Africa

Some saucer-shaped unusual looking clouds were spotted in the skies of Cape Town, the second largest city in South Africa, on November 8, 2015Residents of Cape Town rushed to the streets to take memorial photos of this spectacular phenomenon.

While Martian-fearing people are stressing dispelled alien rumors, fortunately, there are some scientific explanations behind the odd structures.

CNN meteorologist Derek Van Dam explained that these clouds are in fact lenticular clouds that could form when air flows along the surface of the earth and reaches obstruction like a mountain or valley.

“These are fairly common clouds known as stratocumulus standing lenticularis,” Van Dam later wrote on Facebook.