Social media was left in shock after a TikToker spotted a massive ‘ufo’ hovering in the sky.
A video was shared by TikToker @neshaheggins of what looks like a flying saucer in the sky among the clouds.
Naturally, the video went viral.
“What the f**k is that?” the TikToker asked in the video, which they shared last year.
Viewers were also freaking out. One person wrote: “You can say it’s not real or not, clouds etc. But when those ufo really hover (crying face emoji) they come closer and closer.”
“STAAAAAPP!!! This not cool!” a second commented.
Another said: “Well s**t it’s finally happening.”
Another Twitter user went viral after jokingly tagging the video in a tweet, writing: “@JordanPeele’s Makeout is always top tier #NopeMovie.”
The acclaimed film stars Keke Palmer and Steven Yeun, with the synopsis reading: “Characters at a California horse ranch encounter a mysterious force that affects humans and animal behavior.”
The director also responded, rather brilliantly, responding to the viral TikTok and confirmed that he had nothing to do with it.
“That one’s not mine,” he wrote.
IMAX got involved with the fun too, tweeting: “We told them to come down to Earth NEXT Friday, not this Friday.”
Notably, there’s always going to be non-believers in the comments who said that the initial TikTok of the ‘ufo sighting’ was merely a lens flare cloud.
Lenticular clouds are notoriouly known for looking like UFOs and people always like to get ahead of themselves.
As explained by Deborah Byrd of EarthSky: “These lens-shaped clouds typically form where stable moist air flows over a mountain or a range of mountains. If the temperature at the crest of the wave drops to the dew point, moisture in the air may condense to form lenticular clouds.”
“When this happens, a series of large-scale standing waves may form on the downwind side. If the temperature at the crest of the wave drops to the dew point, moisture in the air may condense to form lenticular clouds.”
It’s important to note that lenticular clouds are not UFOs or any kind of mystical phenomenon.
She added: “As the moist air moves back down into the trough of the wave, the cloud may evaporate back into vapor. So lenticular clouds can appear and disappear relatively quickly. Plus, they’re not familiar to people who live in low-lying or flat terrains.
“And, just to compound things, lenticular clouds have also been known to form in non-mountainous places, as the result of sheer winds created by a front. For all of these reasons, lenticular clouds are often mistaken for UFOs (or ‘visual covers’ for UFOs).”
