What about the strange cloud over Moscow?

People on the web have been saying that this is a lenticular cloud. Others have been dismissing it as an optical illusion. I'm just wondering, because I honestly do not know, what people overall think it was. I looked up images of lenticular clouds on google and none of them look like the cloud over moscow. And if this is nothing out of the ordinary, then why aren't there any other pics or footage from other time these "lenticular" clouds have formed like this?What about the strange cloud over Moscow?
One meteorologist stated that is was likely caused by an updraft of warm air from an industrial activity (steel mill) that struck a layer of very cold cloud cover.
It is a lenticular cloud. It's just a really bizarre looking one.What about the strange cloud over Moscow?
The "cloud" over Moscow was the result of refraction of the sun light, called Glory.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_%28op鈥?/a>



It is not really special, you just need special weather conditions to cause them like in Moscow, with high clouds projecting the glory on lower clouds.
it was exactly that.... a strange cloud over Moscow.... don't try to make it something it was not.... ya get into trouble when someone says 'prove it'....What about the strange cloud over Moscow?
It is not Glory, it is a very uniquely shaped cloud formed especially in Russia as it is around the arctic circle.
have not seen it. was under the covers sick with the flu for a few days.