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Though it sounds like alien sci-fi, there's a perfectly reasonable explanation: the peculiar cloud is an altocumulus standing lenticular cloud (ASLC), according to NASA, which is created when winds encounter a steep barrier such as a mountain range. Winds get swept up, creating a standing wave while air at the crest of the wave cools down enough to form water vapor, which condenses into clouds.
"As the cloud forms on the crest of this wave, it remains almost stationary in the sky and is shaped by the strong winds blowing through it," explained New Zealand’s MetService meteorologist John Law in a NASA statement.
Other ASLC clouds can take on even more unusual shapes, appearing as a pile of stacked disc shapes or narrow bowls that reach high up into the sky.
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