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##William Branham stated that the Cloud was formed when the angels left. This does not agree with the theory that the Cloud was formed when they arrived. | ##William Branham stated that the Cloud was formed when the angels left. This does not agree with the theory that the Cloud was formed when they arrived. | ||
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At dusk on February 28, 1963, a cloud appeared in the skies above Flagstaff, Arizona and remained sunlit for 28 minutes after sunset. It was highlighted in the May 1963 edition of Life Magazine. William Branham explained that the cloud was part of the fulfillment of a vision that he had in December 1962. | |||
IT.IS.THE.RISING.OF.THE.SUN_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-12 SUNDAY_ 65-0418M | |||
:''Later, the Angels appeared as was prophesied. And at the same time, a great cluster of Light left where I was standing, and moved thirty miles high in the air, and around the circle, like the wings of the Angels, and drawed into the skies a shape of a pyramid in the same constellation of Angels that appeared. | |||
:''Science took the picture, all the way from Mexico, as it moved from northern Arizona, where the Holy Spirit said I would be standing, "forty miles northeast of Tucson." And it went into the air, and Life magazine packed the pictures, | |||
William Branham said that the angels appeared to him while he was standing in northern Arizona, and that when they left him they created a cloud that was pictured in the Life Magazine. | |||
There are a few problems with this. | |||
First, forty miles northeast of Tucson is not northern Arizona. Go get a map and measure it for yourself. | |||
The southern tip of the cloud was just north of Flagstaff when the photo was taken. Flagstaff is in northern Arizona, and Tucson is in Southern Arizona. | |||
Second, the cloud that appeared in Life Magazine was photographed one week before William Branham went hunting. William Branham’s daughter Rebecca Smith confirmed this in an article she wrote called “Return to Sunset”, which was published in the “Only Believe” magazine. | |||
Finally, William Branham was hunting in the morning, and the cloud appeared in the evening. | |||
So if the cloud was not caused by angels leaving Brother Branham, as he claimed during this sermon, caused it to appear? | |||
In the Life Magazine article, Dr. James McDonald stated that he was not aware of any rocket explosions that day. However, he later wrote another article published in “Science” magazine where he discusses the explosion of a THOR rocket that had been launched from Vandenburg Airforce base in California earlier that day. | |||
So we looked at the story of the rocket to try to see how likely it was that this explosion caused the cloud. | |||
On February 28, 1963, a Thrust assisted Thor Agenda D rocket was launched from pad 75-3-5 at Vandenberg air force base in California. The rocket was carrying a military spy satellite. The rocket started to veer off course and was intentionally destroyed at 1:52 in the afternoon at an estimated height of 44 kilometers. | |||
The height of the cloud that appeared over Flagstaff later that same day was estimated to be about 43 kilometers miles high. Is this just a random coincidence? | |||
In order to travel the required distance from California to Arizona, the cloud would have to be travelling at 135 miles per hour that afternoon. But Dr. James McDonald wrote that the wind speed recorded by scientists was, "tantalizingly close" to the 135 mile an hour wind speed required to carry the cloud from Vandenberg to Flagstaff. | |||
The prevailing winds in California blow from west to east. It is also not unusual for Jetstream winds to vary in speed as you go from north to south. Windspeeds on March 1st, 1963 at an altitude of 43 kilometers were 90 miles an hour at White Sands, New Mexico and 125 miles per hour at Point Mugu, California. | |||
Winds and atmospheric conditions are notoriously unpredictable. However, rocket trails from launches at Vandenberg air force base are regularly seen in Arizona… and even as far east as Oklahoma City. | |||
On March 27, 2012, NASA launched 5 suborbital sounding rockets which released a chemical tracer that created milky white clouds 60 miles above the earth. They did this to learn about wind-speeds in the Mesosphere. The pictures that they took reveal circular clouds similar to the February 28, 1963 cloud. | |||
Someone imposed the picture of Jesus from Hoffman’s painting “Christ at 33” into the photo of the 1963 cloud. The painting first had to be reversed to do this. If you are not a message believer, you are likely offended by this picture. | |||
Still, you can take the same picture from Hoffman’s painting and impose it on the clouds from March 2012, without reversing it. | |||
If you are a message believer, you are likely offended by this picture. | |||
But, whether you are looking at the 1963 cloud or the 2012 cloud, you have to manipulate the image to make the picture fit. | |||
Questions have been raised as to why the cloud was not seen between Vandenberg and Flagstaff. However, noctilucent clouds are very thin and are only visible at dawn or dusk. They cannot be seen until the sky starts to darken overhead as it does at sunset. That is why the Cloud “appeared” over Flagstaff in the evening and was not seen between California and Flagstff. | |||
Based on all of the facts available, it is not only plausible but highly likely that the cloud over Flagstaff was formed by the high altitude destruction of the Thor rocket over Vandenberg Air force base. | |||
However, our examination of the cloud is not over. We will next look at whether the cloud could be in any way related to the events which occurred at Rattlesnake Mesa. | |||
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