Posted on 04/09/2019 7:39:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin
On Friday (April 5), clusters of purple, blue and yellow lights appeared in the country's night sky; as the ghostly shapes hovered, their eerie glow and unusual formation invited speculation about visiting alien spacecraft.
But extraterrestrials weren't behind the demonstration. It was NASA, launching a new rocket system from Norway to study the flow of winds in Earth's upper atmosphere, representatives of the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops, Virginia, tweeted that day.
Following the appearance of an aurora that night, NASA created another spectacular light show with chemical compounds, expelled by the Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment (AZURE). This is the first of eight rocket missions to launch from Norwegian bases in Andøya and Svalbard. The missions will analyze the interactions of Earth's magnetic field lines and particles from space that bombard our planet, according to a NASA statement.
AZURE targeted the ionosphere, the electrically charged atmosphere layer that lies 46 to 621 miles (75 to 1,000 kilometers) above Earth.
During the launch, the rockets deployed chemical tracers — trimethylaluminum (TMA) and a barium-strontium mixture — that ionize in sunlight, enabling researchers to track the flow of neutral and charged particles. These tracers will help NASA measure the churning vertical winds that mix electrically charged particles and energy through the atmosphere, recording the winds' density and temperature, NASA said.
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Swamp gas
Sure they were...he he.
They still at the time were ufos, the u standing for unidentified.
About 20 years ago, NASA and Norway launched a science rocket, giving everybody that mattered prior notice of the launch.
The Russian recipients of the notice neglected to pass it on to the people that actually do the looking for incoming missile attacks...
A likely story.
*ping*
“Okay guys, the rocket experiment was a success. So you can cease probing and drop those civilians. Except for you Hlaxthnirg. Keep probing, you’re behind on your probe quota.”
Excellent
That's just what *they* *want* us to think. /s
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