A strange shape appeared in the New Zealand sky last month but hold off sending those “I told you so” texts to everyone who’s ever doubted you for insisting aliens are here because it turns out it’s a cloud — that looks exactly like a UFO.

The elongated altocumulus standing lenticular cloud (ASLC) cloud, known as the “Taieri Pet,” was spotted in the Otago region of New Zealand’s South Island on September 7th. NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite caught some sweet photos of the seven-mile-long oblong phenomenon, calling it “otherworldly.”

According to local news outlet Otago Daily Times, it “is understood it has been called the Taieri Pet for more than 100 years by locals, who feel it is their own pet cloud because it only appears in their area.”

“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,” John Law, a meteorologist with New Zealand’s MetService, told Earth Observatory.

These clouds are most known for their resemblance to flying saucers that have been popularized in pop culture, to the extent that the U.K. Met Office says they’re “believed to be one of the most common explanations for UFO sightings across the world.”

While these unique clouds may resemble a delicious stack of flapjacks, they can actually prove to be a real pain in the ass for airplanes. The vertical currents that run up and down through the cloud can cause severe turbulence if a plane flies through one, along with the unusually low temperatures, which can form ice on the plane windows. Though the U.K. Met Office notes that “skilled (and brave) glider pilots” love flying through them “because they can tell from the shape of the clouds where the air will be rising.”

So it looks like something much more akin to the X-Games than The X-Files.