I saw a complete double rainbow once with one of them seeming to end on the flight deck of USS CARL VINSON.
Now that can a guy all misty eyed.
Try to ignore Dopin' Dan's "God of the Gaps" syndrome and check out: Robert Greenler's Rainbows, Halos and Glories, Cambridge University Press, 1980.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. St. John 1:5