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Ike
12/21/2006, 11:36 AM
So late tuesday night/early wednesday morning the wife and I arrived here in Oklahoma.

anyhoo, around 3-3:30 am on wednesday, we were driving east on I-40 around douglas road. most of the storm had already passed so it wasn't raining that bad. To the north, I saw what looked like a very strange lightning effect. A portion of the clouds to the north lit up as though lightning was going through them....but then they stayed lit up, all greenish like for about 10-15 seconds, with really no variation in brightness or color. When it finally died out though, it did so with a bit of a flash of orangeish.


anyway, I just thought it was weird enough to write about here.
BoogercountySooner
12/21/2006, 11:44 AM
Transformer was blowing up!
Ike
12/21/2006, 11:49 AM
Transformer was blowing up!

I thought that, but I didn't think that a transformer would keep the cloud lit up for that long. It really was lit up for a long time....long enough for me to say "honey, look at that wierd **** over there" and for her to see it too...
achiro
12/21/2006, 11:59 AM
You know what it was, U_F_O they're coming back for their avatar!
Ike
12/21/2006, 12:06 PM
yours or mine?
achiro
12/21/2006, 12:07 PM
yours or mine?
Oh, geez, I hadn't thought of that. BRB, gotta go get some aluminum foil.
OUTromBoNado
12/21/2006, 01:50 PM
Transformer was blowing up!

Hopefully, it wasn't Optimus Prime.
Partial Qualifier
12/21/2006, 02:38 PM
timing's a little off but:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061218.html


Explanation: Last Thursday evening, stars were not the only lights in Iowa skies. Spectacular northern lights (http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/auroras/) also shone from the heavens, extending across the midwestern USA and other locations (http://spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01dec06_page3.htm) not often graced with auroral displays. The wide-ranging auroral activity was triggered as a large solar flare (http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/pickoftheweek/) - an energetic cloud of particles blasted outward from the Sun (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/sun.html) a few days earlier - collided with planet Earth's (http://www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/outreach/geospace.html) magnetosphere.


?? maybe?
Ike
12/21/2006, 02:49 PM
timing's a little off but:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061218.html




?? maybe?


actually, I saw this too from Illinois last thursday. It was pretty damn faint though.
C&CDean
12/21/2006, 02:51 PM
Sounds to me like the acid kicked in.
OUTromBoNado
12/21/2006, 03:15 PM
timing's a little off but:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061218.html




?? maybe?

They saw it in Arizona.
Osce0la
12/21/2006, 04:05 PM
Sounds to me like the acid kicked in.
DON'T TAKE THE BROWN ACID!!!