article_snippet.sent: Clip was filmed on Saturday in Shortandy village, 40 miles north of the capital Astana, and captures the  cloud hovering in the sky for 15 minutes before suddenly vanishing without trace.
article_snippet.sent: Confused locals watched the cloud hover ominously over Shortandy for a quarter of an hour on Saturday morning before the cloud vanished as quickly as the cloud appeared.
article_snippet.sent: Once the cloud had rapidly dispersed, no trace of the cloud was left in the sky.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking to local news website Today.kz, villager Oleg Menshikov said: 'It was like a black cloud.
article_snippet.sent: villager Oleg Menshikov saw It at around 4 pm on April 3.
article_snippet.sent: Others thought the cloud was likely to be a naturally occurring weather event known as a thermal microburst, which is caused by a falling mass of warm air.
article_snippet.sent: Mysterious: The clip was filmed on Saturday in Shortandy village, 40 miles north of the capital Astana, and captures the cloud hovering in the sky for 15 minutes before suddenly vanishing without trace .
article_snippet.sent: Dispersing rapidly: Confused locals watched the cloud hover ominously over Shortandy for a quarter of an hour on Saturday morning before the cloud vanished as quickly as the cloud appeared .
article_snippet.sent: Experts believe the cloud was roughly 100 metres in diameter and floated close to a mile in the air.
article_snippet.sent: In the latest instance it is likely the cloud was far more visible and hung around in the sky for much longer than usual for the simple reason the cloud was cloudless day with little to no wind.
highlights_snippet.sent: Clip shows mysterious black cloud hanging over the village of Shortandy .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: While some viewers are suggesting the cloud was an alien spacecraft, experts think the cloud could have been caused by nearby factories .