The Thing in the sky.
 

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/...48_634x421.jpg

internet nerds are saying it's an off-course rocket trailing fuel, but it seems pretty damn lucky to keep up that pretty spiral shape.

And here come the conspirators...

It looks rather fake to me.

FAKE I CANZ SEE PIXLEZ!!!11!!

Who cares of it's fake or real, that looks awesome.

I think it looks sort of annoying.

Looks shooped to me....

Looks like a physical object to me.

Wicked!

Dr. Atlantis has some explanations for you. Really. I'm not kidding. Dr. Atlantis.


http://twitter.com/doctoratlantis/status/6504652897

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx8i5EfmYU4

I just noticed that Ghost's link was to the Daily Mail, I am disappoint.

Apparently when you drill deep holes, you can hear the eternally damned screaming in Hell.

So many of these images do look incredibly faked, it has to be said. The one in the OP especially.

I'm disappointed how most of the responses here infer 'it's fake' with little to no real investigation. If it's fake, prove it. If it happened, back it up. Don't wait for someone else to do it for you.

Guys, seriously. A simple search on any engine reveals that this is not localized news. For some reason, the picture Strike Witch posted looks 'enhanced' or something, but there seem to be videos captured of this event with much less 'vibrance.' Evidently something happened. That should be enough to spark some kind of interest.

This is no place for well known facts.

And yeah, fake.

Yes. But that photo looks fake.

This looks totally fake. And people who made this should really enhance their photoshop skills. As for videos - cosidering the fact that there is easy-to-use post-effects software nowadays even a noob could do such thing.

So this is what it will look like when the wizard uses the rune stone to open up a portal to the netherworld to usher in the apocalypse.

My brother says he's been dicking around with his rune stones again, he apologizes to you all.

Your brother looks photoshopped.

My brother believes that he has the latent brain power required to sense a persons emotions and neural state via their electromagnetic brain activity.

True story.

Your brother gets a whole box of buttons.

Those anti-scientific TV shows about aliens and stuff really make people believe in every bullshit instead of getting aquainted to at least basic physics.

I think you shouldn't have a made a post this long to say "Goddammit guys why don't you check it yourselves."

EDIT: That sounded kind of dickish. That was not my intention.

You're not wrong; I'm very wordy. :p

It's obvious what this is. It's the new AstroBoy checking out his TurboBoots.

It only looks fake because none of you have seen a portal to hell before.

Interesting, I just found out that a similar cloud/event occured in China on June 6th of this year.

they're pulling out all the stops with this one! we're in safe hands.

A cretin! The first time I read that I thought it said Gretin.

You're right that it's not localised news, but most news services are only quoting the other news services and they're all showing the same footage.