Naked Science Forum
Non Life Sciences => Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology => Topic started by: thedoc on 01/05/2013 10:30:02
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Yifei Song asked the Naked Scientists:
I am a student from China but living in Germany. This January I luckily saw some amazing displays of auroras under Swedish Lapland skies. But at about 2 a.m., just at that moment something mysterious and extraordinary happened and it has been on my mind for too long, I'm still so puzzled!
The night sky was so quiet - no aurora anymore and I was heading home, then I saw some clouds became reddish (in that direction, there were some auroras earlier)... as soon as the red color vanished, 'bang---' (not literally, but as if there were such 'terrifying' effect of sound), a very strong display of green lights which looked just like lightning (horizontal instead of vertical)... just like explosion!!! It lasted only for a sec or 2. Then the red color appeared again in clouds and vanished and this green lightning-alike 'explosion' occurred again... So it repeated 3 times!!!
Do you perhaps have any idea what that might be? Any possible explanations? I know why auroras occur, there are the slow and fast solar winds colliding in the magnetic field..., but about this one single happening I feel completely in dark... I told everyone what I saw, no one believed me.
Please help me solve and understand this mystery! I'd appreciate it so much to hear anything back!
What do you think?