Eruption on Mt Etna (Sicily) at night looks like a Phoenix flying through the sky.

CookieThumpr on October 10th, 2021 at 23:21 UTC »

Moltres!

PancakeExprationDate on October 11st, 2021 at 00:13 UTC »

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JCAIA on October 11st, 2021 at 00:54 UTC »

It does make you wonder how many fables or folklore were just natural occurrences, that people didn’t know how to explain at the time.