The northern lights could be seen clear to Fresno, CA. They were awesome, red then turning to green. Anyone else witness them?

-- skygazer (skygazer@watcher.watch), March 31, 2001

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Fool. They weren't Northern Lights - they were residual chemtrail traces. The NWO in their white jets were seen taking off from a huge secret military complex in Idaho (the site of an equally huge concentration camp for GI's)and spraying half the US with a biological weapon. Won't be long now before we feel the effec....

-- Y3K Pro (Y2kpro1@hotmail.com), March 31, 2001.

Here in southern New Mexico (my latitude is 33 degrees north) the northern lights, or aurora borealis, lasted for the better part of two hours. At maximum, the roseate display reached some 20 degrees above Polaris, the North Star; in other words, the display reached more than halfway up the northern sky here. (Polaris at my latitude is 33 degrees above the northern horizon, naturally.) There were even roseate displays directly to the east and to the west, which I've never seen before. The display in the west was faint and didn't last long, but the display in the eastern sky was quite distinct and lasted for almost an hour.

There was also a more typical "ghostly" pale blue-green display at times in the northern sky, much less vivid (but also less volatile) than the roseate display; the blue-green display rose 25-30 degrees into the northern sky. (From horizon to zenith is 90 degrees.)

I've been an amateur astronomer for 35 years, and this was easily the finest auroral display I've ever seen. The last good display I saw was in March 1990, in Illinois, near the end of the last solar peak cycle. Some of the auroral "spokes" or rays last night were almost as bright as searchlight beams and reached to the zenith (the point directly overhead); there were at least eight rays at one time. The display in the eastern sky once even sent a ray into the southeastern sky, ending about halfway between the SE horizon and the zenith.

Astronomers reported last night that this display was seen as far south as the equator, which I can easily believe. At the equator, Polaris lies exactly on the northern horizon, so, during the maximum aurora borealis display, some 20 degrees of roseate color would have been visible above the northern horizon at the equator for those with a clear, flat view. The longest auroral rays would have reached 2/3 of the way up into the northern sky for those observers at the equator, and those rays obviously could have been seen far south of the equator as well.

Don Florence

-- Don Florence (dflorence@zianet.com), March 31, 2001.

ISN,T GODS=HANDIWORK AMAZING??????

-- AL-D (DOGS@ZIANET.COM), March 31, 2001.

Don:

Glad you saw them. The last time I did I was camped out in Canada. Stayed up all night.

I live north of you. Last night the clouds started at ground level and went to over 40 K. Couldn't have seen a nuclear explosion. You had good luck.

Best Wishes,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), March 31, 2001.

Don Florence:

Thanks for your wonderful commentary on the solar flares and northern lights. The beauty and thrill was beyond my own description, but you described it beautifully! It was a real thrill for me! Thanks for your post!

-- skygazer (skygazer@watcher.watch), March 31, 2001.