If you haven’t heard/seen this spectacular sight of what looks more like a giant “ET-ear” than an “ET-container,” CNN’s got a short video and explanation for you. Tim Binnall offers what look more like Odd ‘UFO’ Clouds Spotted Over Central Texas. At least folks of all ages in The City of New Braunfels made that association. And people in our 50th state wondered the same as a Mysterious ‘Whirlpool’ Appears in the Night Sky above Hawaii. The BBC has some nice time-lapse photography of this marvel. And closer to Earth (actually water!), Mysterious Whiting Events in the Ocean Have Scientists Baffled. BGR Science’s Joshua Hawkins says “[S]ome possible theories are floating around” for these strange and ballooning blossoms of calcium carbonate, but definitions don’t easily emerge for the florescences. One wonders, given the recent burgeoning of the whitish patches “that appear in our oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water around the world,” just how long this has been going on and if humans somehow could contribute to periodic mollusk “die-offs.” (WM)
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