The Facts on the Cloud

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The Cloud: Just the Facts • Intro • Prophesied? • Location? • Cause? • Timing?

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

The vision

1. 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.
2. The word "cloud" is not mentioned in the vision
3. One week later, on December 30, 1962 William Branham changes his recollection of the vision to state that it was seven angels.

The cloud

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The "cloud" appeared around sunset on February 28, 1963 and remained sunlit for 28 minutes after sunset.
4. The "cloud" appeared near Flagstaff, AZ (referred to as the "Flagstaff Cloud" in this article).
5. The height of the Flagstaff Cloud was estimated to be approximately 43 kilometers (141,000 feet).
6. 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 Flagstaff Cloud from California to Flagstaff by sunset.

The hunting trip

1. William Branham was in Tucson, AZ on February 28, 1963.
2. On March 3, 1963, William Branham drove from Tucson to Houston, TX.
3. On March 4, 1963, William Branham spoke in Houston (A Absolute, 63-0304).
4. William Branham drove back to Tucson from Houston on March 5, 1963.
5. William Branham drove to Rattlesnake Mesa, AZ with Fred Sothmann and Gene Norman on March 6, 1963.
6. On March 7, 1963, William Branham killed a javelina hog.
7. The following afternoon, William Branham and his 2 companions returned to Tucson.

The Seven Seals sermon series

1. William Branham preached a teaching series, "The Seven Seals", from March 17-24, 1963 in Jeffersonville.
2. No mention is made of the Flagstaff Cloud in any of the sermons of the series.

The picture in Life Magazine

1. The May edition of Life Magazine was published on May 17, 1963 (Vol. 54, No. 20) and contained an article on the Flagstaff Cloud entitled "...And a High Cloud Ring of Mystery."
2. The first mention of the Flagstaff Cloud by William Branham was on June 1, 1963 and William Branham states - "I looked to see when it was, and it was time, same, about day or two before, or day or two after I was up there. I looked where it was at. “Northeast of Flagstaff, or Prescott, which is below Flagstaff.” Well, that’s just where we was at, see, just exactly."

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