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AKsilvereagle
Oct 31, 2013Explorer II
Last night, at 130am Wed Oct 30.....I went outside in my backyard to plug in my truck and looked up at the sky to see a few nice typical green colored glow in the dark long moving streak...
All of a sudden a third of the sky was covered as the lights turned white with red streaks and were moving around faster than I ever seen in my 31 years in the far north, I mean like moving 100 times faster in comparison of watching water moving around in a toilet while flushing....I seen the northern lights move around fast in my time every now and then, but not like what I witnessed for 4 straight minutes moving over 1000 times faster than previously ever.
The spectacular display seemed like the lights were getting closer and closer towards the surface of the earth it was practically scary, while seeing the ground of my backyard reflecting the light, first time I ever experienced seeing the ground reflecting light from any northern lights display.
No I am not exaggerating, or was hallucinating either.
After the 4 minutes of what I witnessed, the white and red northern lights were completely gone and only displayed a few green glow in the dark color once again in a fishtailing movement mode.
I had not heard any noise from this aurora though, but man - I doubt I would ever witness any northern lights display like this ever again.
Upon starting my vacation in late August, I hit the road at 1000pm and seen a wild streak of northern lights while approaching Tanacross about 30 miles west of Tok that really caught my attention while driving the camper at 200am at that time....By the time I made it to Tok to overnight, the lights were completely gone.
There has been some pretty active aurora in this area here so far this dark season.
All of a sudden a third of the sky was covered as the lights turned white with red streaks and were moving around faster than I ever seen in my 31 years in the far north, I mean like moving 100 times faster in comparison of watching water moving around in a toilet while flushing....I seen the northern lights move around fast in my time every now and then, but not like what I witnessed for 4 straight minutes moving over 1000 times faster than previously ever.
The spectacular display seemed like the lights were getting closer and closer towards the surface of the earth it was practically scary, while seeing the ground of my backyard reflecting the light, first time I ever experienced seeing the ground reflecting light from any northern lights display.
No I am not exaggerating, or was hallucinating either.
After the 4 minutes of what I witnessed, the white and red northern lights were completely gone and only displayed a few green glow in the dark color once again in a fishtailing movement mode.
I had not heard any noise from this aurora though, but man - I doubt I would ever witness any northern lights display like this ever again.
Upon starting my vacation in late August, I hit the road at 1000pm and seen a wild streak of northern lights while approaching Tanacross about 30 miles west of Tok that really caught my attention while driving the camper at 200am at that time....By the time I made it to Tok to overnight, the lights were completely gone.
There has been some pretty active aurora in this area here so far this dark season.
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