There is a lot of misinformation and hype relating to the Cloud. The purpose of this page is to simply list the facts and provide links to the research behind the facts.

Just the facts

On December 23, 1962 in Jeffersonville, Indiana, William Branham said he had a vision on the preceding day of five angels coming from the west in a pyramid-constellation.
The word "cloud" is not mentioned in the vision
One week later, on December 30, 1962 William Branham changes his recollection of the vision to state that it was seven angels.
On February 28, 1963, a thrust assisted Thor rocket was launched from pad 75-3-5 at Vandenburg Air Force Base in California carrying a Keyhole 4 military surveillance satellite.
The rocket started to veer off course and was intentionally destroyed[2] at an altitude of 44 kilometers (144,000 feet) at 1:52 pm.
The cloud appeared around sunset on February 28, 1963 and remained sunlit for 28 minutes after sunset.
The cloud appeared near Flagstaff, AZ
The height of the cloud was estimated to be approximately 43 kilometers (141,000 feet).
No one recorded the wind speed on the day of the Thor explosion Vandenburg but the wind speed recorded by scientists at other times, according to Dr. Macdonald, was "tantalizingly close" to the required wind speed to get the cloud created by the explosion to Flagstaff by sunset.
William Branham was in Tucson, AZ on February 28, 1963.