Can clouds act as camoflage and will there be atmospheric skid marks from "braking"?
In this scenario, light-bending camouflage is already in use to prevent civilians from seeing any spacecraft as they enter the atmosphere.
The question is whether it is realistic to visualize this as suddenly appearing clouds, or perhaps clouds of a specific shape.
Could there realistically be a visible cloud effect from the change in speed and maybe also direction of a spacecraft that results in clouds appearing in an unusual pattern similar to wave clouds with visible sky between each wave, but on a much smaller scale (such that a small airplane could traverse the length of it in about a half minute) and with no mountains nearby.
For more detail, I'm also imagining this cloud formation appears ahead of a larger solid cloud mass that is actually produced as part of the camouflaging effect of the spacecraft.
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