Aurora Mystery Solved?

Discovery News ^ | January 26, 2010 | Ian O'Neill

[NYer]

Ping!

[Joe 6-pack]

Didn't think the Aurora was a mystery any longer...;-)

[EggsAckley]

Roar roar for Nora
For Nora in the Night Has Seen
Aurora Borealis
Burning Bright................

[RaceBannon]

Calling Louis Farrakhan!!

[ZGuy]

If you haven’t seen a -8 or -9 Iridium flare, you should definitely put it on your list of easy things worth doing. You can get the times for your exact location at http://www.heavens-above.com/

[Western Phil]

If the time and location that the photo was taken are available, the Heavens Above fellow http://www.heavens-above.com/ could certainly tell you if there was an Iridium salelite in position to do this.

[AFreeBird]

Looks an awful lot like one of these:

[Vaduz]

What is faster than SR-71??.

[stormer]

The shape is reminiscent of the high altitude phenomena called "sprites", but as far as I know, they are generally red.

The appearance of a "sprite" (about 30 miles high by 30 miles wide), flashing above a distant thunderstorm. The "sprite" is about 175-250 miles away from the camera.

[messierhunter]

That’s really peculiar.

[Joe 6-pack]

"What is faster than SR-71??"

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[Quix]

THANKS. will check it out.

[Quix]

SOUNDS LIKE a plausible explanation.

There’s plenty of strange stuff going on . . .

I doubt one size fits all.

[Deaf Smith]

I thought the title of the thread was about the Aurora, Texas mystery.

We'll give that one another hundred years.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks NYer. Louis Frank, pick up the courtesy phone.

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[ConservativeMind]

Calling JoeProBono. Calling JoeProbono.

[JoeProBono]

[paulycy]

Ah heck. Galactic jellyfish are a dime a dozen.