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I guess the term "rainbow" might be a bit misleading. What I saw wasn't caused by light reflecting and refracting in raindrops. It was a multicolored array including all the colors found in a rainbow. Which leads me to point out that the picture that I put a link to really doesn't depict w...

I agree. It wasn't arc shaped at all, and it wasn't in any clouds either. Of the (cough) google images, the only one that was close to what I saw was this one: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_7b7BOyDKFTQ/SlDDNWn0pJI/AAAAAAAABzw/n66j-lResJ0/s1600-h/PICT0018.JPG Which, as the author explains, doesn't quite ...

Last Thursday (8-6-09) I was flying East out of Pheonix at about 7 pm. About twenty minutes into our flight, the sun set over the desert from a nearly cloudless western sky. Moments after the sun dropped completely below the horizon, an enormous horizontal rainbow appeared. Red, orange, yellow, gree...