What caused a mystery hole in the clouds above California?

Photos that have emerged of a bizarre cloud formation over Northern California are causing social media users to wonder: Is the truth out there?

The strange snapshots have popped up all across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and show a bright, unusual hole in the otherwise undisturbed clouds over Stockton on Friday afternoon.

Now curious-minded folks in California and around the globe are speculating about what caused the phenomenon and some say its weird appearance belies an even weirder cause.

‘So the @WhiteHouse  wants you to believe what happened over the skies of Stockton yesterday was a “cloud formation” ? GTFOH #iKnowWhatiSaw,’ tweeted @CaPtDCharles.

Much of the speculation suggested that the bright cloud a UFO or somehow caused by extraterrestrial life.

However, there were plenty of other theories. TRUNews