Could be supernatural forces at work here

WHAT some people see when they look up at the sky is just out of this world.

It was the ancient Babylonians who first successfully theorised about the planets and laid the foundations of Western astronomy.

Yet they still saw activity and omens in the skies from what they thought were the ancient deities.

It seems that recently similar phenomena have been observed in the skies by some, as indicated on the clay tablets of users of Instantgroan, Tickytacky, Whatsup and Twitty.

Spectacular and unusual cloud formations photographed over Wales and other regions have suggested to these people that supernatural forces are at work here.

One social media user, whose phone is the centre of his universe, claimed to have seen images of his previously deceased cat in the clouds and suggested that this might have been an extra-furrestrial experience.

The most common images seem to be dogs, horses, dragons, feathers, eagles and the Queen. Those social media users with the gift of discerning such images often see some significance in the sighting, rather like an ancient Roman diviner reading the entrails of a guinea pig or observing the pecking behaviour of sacred chickens.

Some of the more intriguing cloud images were allegedly spotted over Birmingham last week.

These included a tall man contorted in a double U-turn (aka “a Kwasi”), a group of people rebuilding a red wall, a reincarnation of Margaret Thatcher with a miner’s lamp, a lump of shale rock and a large man with dishevelled hair riding on the back of a golden-plumed phoenix.

People who do not know their stratus from their cumulus are surprised at the many cloud formations often reflecting human characteristics.

For example, the thin, wispy, silky ice crystals of the cirrus; the smooth, boring and mostly featureless altostratus; the easily seen-through, warm and often dazzling cirrostratus; the gloomy, threatening, lightblocking nimbostratus.

Indeed, as the great, the good and the pompous strut the Earth, they need to beware of the low-flying stratocumulus formation, for those too big for their boots often find their heads stuck in it.