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Jan 13 16 6:31 PM
Walker spots super-rare phenomenon during a stroll across the fog-bound Cleveland Way A British walker has spotted a rare phenomenon called a "Brocken spectre" in the skies over Yorkshire. Mirror reader Ian Lowry was taking a Sunday stroll across the The Cleveland Way, when he suddenly spotted a ghostly figure in the sky, which he captured on camera. He wasn't hallucinating and this wasn't a visitation from the other side, but the effects of a natural occurrence first recorded in Germany. A Brocken spectre occurs when an observer's shadow is cast onto the upper surface of a cloud, often appearing inside a rainbow-like halo caused by light shining through water droplets. Ian said: "From where we were walking, you can usually see for miles, but the sky was covered in all directions by fog.
A British walker has spotted a rare phenomenon called a "Brocken spectre" in the skies over Yorkshire.
Mirror reader Ian Lowry was taking a Sunday stroll across the The Cleveland Way, when he suddenly spotted a ghostly figure in the sky, which he captured on camera.
He wasn't hallucinating and this wasn't a visitation from the other side, but the effects of a natural occurrence first recorded in Germany.
A Brocken spectre occurs when an observer's shadow is cast onto the upper surface of a cloud, often appearing inside a rainbow-like halo caused by light shining through water droplets.
Ian said: "From where we were walking, you can usually see for miles, but the sky was covered in all directions by fog.
Read more @ http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/ghostly-brocken-spectre-appears-clouds-7167398#rlabs=1%20rt$category%20p$5
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