Trailspotter
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I was checking the satellite images of England on NASA Worldview for yesterday, May 16, 2015
and noticed a rather unusual feature - a diagonal band devoid of clouds. It is particularly striking in the Aqua image at about 12:30 UTC:
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/20412a34ca2e9cd32d4c6f92b59d997a._.jpg)
but it was also present in the Terra image at 10:45 UTC, nearly two hours earlier:
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/402374ef80695dd083e8bd169666540d._.jpg)
The most of the country was covered by ordinary small cumulus clouds that from below looked like these:
![IMG_4520.JPG IMG_4520.JPG](https://www.metabunk.org/attachments/img_4520-jpg.12913/)
This photo was taken above my place at the same time as the Aqua photo.
Is there a meteorological explanation to this phenomenon? Or is this a long-sought evidence of a secret cloud seeding program to send messages to alien spacecraft orbiting Earth?
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and noticed a rather unusual feature - a diagonal band devoid of clouds. It is particularly striking in the Aqua image at about 12:30 UTC:
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/20412a34ca2e9cd32d4c6f92b59d997a._.jpg)
but it was also present in the Terra image at 10:45 UTC, nearly two hours earlier:
![](https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/402374ef80695dd083e8bd169666540d._.jpg)
The most of the country was covered by ordinary small cumulus clouds that from below looked like these:
This photo was taken above my place at the same time as the Aqua photo.
Is there a meteorological explanation to this phenomenon? Or is this a long-sought evidence of a secret cloud seeding program to send messages to alien spacecraft orbiting Earth?
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