Strange Colorful Cloud Forms Over Metroplex (Dallas-FTWorth

[Aliska]

Lucy in the sky with diamonds.........

No, that would look like this. My cat Lucy:

[JMJJR]

I saw a similar "cloud formation" around the CO / NM border back in May !!

I had witnesses !!

[Neenah]

Someday we'll find it, the Rainbow Connection

The lovers, the dreamers, and me

[Daus]

DARPA's 'Gay Aurora' program?

:)

[Leroy S. Mort]

Rollen Stewart escaping from jail?

[Vic3O3]

Wow! That looks cool! I've seen sun dogs before, but nothing like that. I'd guess it is refracted light off of ice crystals...

[ngc6656]

I think that's an iridescent contrail from a jet turning in a loop, hence the curved shape. (I don't think it's a arc of iridesence within the larger cloud.) If you put on dark sunglasses and look at the edges of clouds the sun is presently behind or near, you will see lots of iridescent places in the clouds - it isn't rare.

I believe you are correct on both counts.

I do not think the phenomenon in the photograph is a sun dog. Sun dogs appear 22 degrees right and/or left of the sun on a line parallel to the horizon and that passes through the sun, i.e., the sun and associated sun dogs share the same altitude above the horizon. In the subject photo, judging by the shadows in the clouds, the sun appears to me to be off the photo to the upper right, not at the same apparent altitude as the colorful phenomemon.

[pankot]

Hand me my tin-foil hat please.

[pobodys nerfect]

We have sundogs here in UT all the time. Very common.

[MarineBrat]

It was me sticking my head out of Lovey's airplane!