In October, 1976, this cloud passed over the city of Los Angeles. It was visible from the hills and from the beach, and much like the Station Fire pyrocumulus, it was also photographed repeatedly, by people who couldn't quite believe what they were seeing. My friend Jennifer, who grew up in L.A. in the '70s but missed the awesome visitation (homework, maybe?), has a poster of the cloud, caught from a dozen different angles, hanging on the wall of her Santa Monica home. These are two of them, and the pictures aren't airbrushed or enhanced; the thing really did look like a cotton candy Zeppelin floating by. What was it?! "Nuclear testing" - that's Jennifer's guess.
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