A man from England took pictures of Cornwall’s coastline and posted the first photo in the form of a ship floating in the clouds.
Photographer David Morris said he was “stunned and very hateful” by the optical illusion but according to UK’s ITV he had seen something like this before.
According to ITV, the ship was known to float because of the same color of the distant sky and sea.
The BBC’s meteorologist David Brain said: “Superior mirage occurs due to a weather condition known as temperature inversion, where cold air is accompanied by warm air near the ocean.
He said the mirage appears to be due to “special atmospheric conditions that bend light”, a phenomenon common in the Arctic but rarely seen in the UK.
Mind-bending optical illusion
“Cold air is less than hot air, so it gives a light curve to someone’s eyes standing on the ground or on the shore, changing how distant the object looks,” he said.
Last week, another man in Scotland found a photo of a ship that looked like it was floating in the sky.
Colin M. McCallum wrote in a viral Facebook post of his picture on the Ber Bardin coast of northern Scotland, “Today I saw an optical illusion of real life in BFNF.”
