It was several years ago, cold weather, snow on the ground.
There was a big fireball every few minutes, sometimes two or
three at once. Even the police, sheriff and troopers had
stopped to watch.


"A Lieberma" wrote in message
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| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in
| :
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| I prefer the solid ground for night sky viewing.
|
| Fully understand this!
|
| I've got a
| place with no nearby light pollution, millions more
stars
| are visible. One clear night a few years ago, there was
| snow cover but no clouds at all, I was out driving by
the
| airport and wondered why they had the strobes running,
then
| I realized it was a meteor storm, the flashes were so
bright
| they were casting shadows on the snow and leaving smoke
| trails in the sky.
|
| Let me guess, the Leonids? One night flight home, saw a
"fireball".
| Scared the bejeebers outta me it was so bright. And like
you saw, smoke
| trail followed it. At first, thought it was a plane
blowing up, but
| having seen meteors before, I knew better just from the
speed, length and
| angle of the flash. More lights upstairs then downstairs
on most of my
| night flights :-))
|
| It was late at night, so I stayed out several hours
| watching. I made just one mistake, I told my wife about
it.
| She was tired and had to get up to go to her college
class.
| I thought she would not want to be disturbed. I told
her
| and she has never forgiven me.
|
| Yep, though different situation here, it was the Northern
lights. Woke
| my wife up at 2 a.m. and it was -15F, but she didn't
regret it! Would
| love to see that from 5000 feet!
|
| I was kinda hoping the sunspot causing the radiation
commotion would have
| kept up so it would kick up some northern lights, but that
simmered down.
| Wouuldn't have been good for the GPS network though I'd
suspect?
|
| Allen