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Thread #24567   Message #282781
Posted By: Sorcha
22-Aug-00 - 07:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Explaining the Unexplained
Subject: RE: BS: Explaining the Unexplained
Cloud Story--no signifcance whatsoever, as far as I know:

Years ago, when I was about 14, 4 or 5 carloads of us were traveling from Winfield, KS (US) to Grand Lake o'the Cherokees, in OK. It was late afternoon, early evening with one of those wonderful prairie thunderstorms building up, with all the fantastic cumulus clouds in the eastern part of the sky. Behind us, to the west, the sky was still mostly clear with a few high cirrus (mare's tails)clouds.

Suddenly, my dad, driver of the lead car, pulled over onto the shoulder, jumped out and waved everybody else over too. He pointed at the western sky behind us. Of course, everyone got out to see what he was looking at.

Behind us, in the clouds, was a battle, complete with running horses, cannon balls with puffs of powder smoke, men falling off horses when the cannonballs hit, the WHOLE BATTLE. Seemed to be a Civil War Battle to us. Before very long, the entire shoulder of the highway was covered with parked cars and people watching the show. Everyone could see the same things at the same time--WOW, did you see that shot? Was really close to that Troop type stuff. Memeory fails, but I know there were about 10-15 in my own group, and it seems that we had about 50 people watching the clouds.

Show lasted about an hour, then the clouds just drifted away. I might have been even more impressed if it had been the Ghost Riders chasing the herd, but I doubt it. I had seen and have seen "shapes" in the clouds but this is the only thing like that I have ever seen, and I am glad I was not the only one who saw it!!