High-contrast time lapse video stock footage available at JCMDI.COM Sometimes mistaken for UFOs, this type of cloud is known as a "Lenticular" cloud (Altostratus lenticularis) and is formed when moist air from lower altitude is "bounced" (deflected) up into cooler, lower-pressure layers of the troposphere by terrestrial objects such as mountain ranges. Just like the ripples and rapids in a stream or river caused by rocks and other obstacles, air also behaves similarly as it flows over large ...