UNUSUAL ASTRONOMICAL PHENOMENA

Also see: Link Collection

Seattle, May 7-14 2006. HAARP, UFOs, Bigfoot, Tesla.

A couple of years ago, I was going for a late night walk alone through my neighborhood. I was feeling kind of depressed about some difficulties I had been dealing with in my life. Suddenly I came to the realization that all the hard times I had to live through were very valuable experiences because they made me into the person who I was. And I gave a moment of sincere thanks to the Universe for everything, all the good and the bad things that I had experienced, because every moment was truly a treasure in its own way. Then, just at that second, I felt compelled to look up into the sky--I don't know why--but as I looked up, I saw the most beautiful shooting star that I have ever seen. It was very low to the ground, and so close that I could see the sparks shooting out of it and I could actually hear it as it passed. It sounded like very fine broken glass tinkling gently. All this may have been a mere coincidence, but it was still very meaningful to me. I feel as though the Universe heard my prayer of thanks and responded in kind. And I will always remember this night as not only a turning point in my life, but also as one of my most beautiful memories. Thank you. Mark M. Minneapolis, MN USA - Thursday, June 20, 2002 at 21:05:16 (PDT)

At 3PM on 08-06-02, I observed an unusual object in the sky. Looking up at the clouds (for no apparent reason), towards the southwest from my backyard located in Beaverton, OR. a silver or metallic object caught my eye. At first I assumed it was only a high flying Jet or Plane until I noticed that it wasn't moving. I looked at it hard to try and estimate how high it was and lost it a few times behind moving clouds. After the clouds moved on, I found it still in the same area. That's when I went inside to get my binocular to try and see it's shape or markings. I monitored it for well over an hour but it was out of range for my 10X50 lenses. I also noticed it did move very slowly about the same speed as the rotation on Earth. So it had to be floating up pretty high in space. But if it was a satilte it would have moved across the sky. If I had to guess what it was, I would have to say it was something reflecting the sunlight from space. It had to be very large, because the airline type planes that normaly fly over our house were smaller. I wondered if it was one of the space stations. But I thought they were in constant motion too just like satilites. No explaination. J.Nelson J Nelson Beaverton, OR USA - Wednesday, August 07, 2002 at 20:55:03 (PDT)

It was spring, 1977 and my brother had just gotten home from university. We were sitting outside enjoying the nice weather and full moon. To the east of our house about five miles is Logansport. Suddenly, without any kind of noise or change in the ambient light, a large dome of pearlescant light seemed to billow up from the ground. As it hung in the air, several pastel colored lights blinked on and off inside the dome. After a few seconds, it 'deflated' and disappeared. I looked in the newspaper to see if anyone else had reported seeing it, but there was nothing ever reported. Has anyone else ever seen anything like this? Richard Caudle <richard a cqc com> Logansport, IN USA - Saturday, September 05, 1998 at 21:21:58 (PDT)

I was having a smoke the other night, Sunday 16th, in Linton, Cambridgeshire. I was in the garden, it was pleasently calm, the stars where very bright. All of a sudden one of the stars started moving, it moved accross the night sky, from above my head to the horizon in about 10 minutes. It had a slight arc to its trajectory. It looked really weird, there was no sound and I had no idea what was going on. Chris Rossy <radiator a globalnet com> London, UK - Monday, May 18, 1998 at 13:36:33 (PDT)

Following up to my observation of an unusual aurora type pheneomena that I reported on 7 October 1996 below, I have included a photograph at the URL above. For more aurora images, see my homepage at: http://climate.gi.alaska edu/Curtis/curtis.html Feedback received has suggest a stationary red aurora at high altitude or street pillars (similar to sun/moon pillars) due to ice crystal reflection. Both theories seem weak due to the fact that the rays in the photo don't converge to magnitude north nor do they converge overhead as would pillars do. Pillars also never extended above 30-45 degrees above the horizon. The image show was at 75 degs above the horizon. Regards, Jan Curtis Jan Curtis <jcurtis> Fairbanks, AK USA - Thursday, December 05, 1996 at 11:09:03 (PST)

It was the day of the lunar eclipse. I went outside looking for the moon, not sure where in the sky it would be. I think it was just a few minutes before the moon actually showed up in the east (roughly). I was drawn to something just 180 degrees out from where the moon eventually showed up. I was looking across a valley toward Everett, WA from my home in Snohomish. What I saw was like a cigar shape, bright white, like a cloud. The only problem was that it was the only object visible in the sky. There were no other clouds anywhere. It was light, not twilight yet, appoximately 6:00 P.M. Now, this object was moving at a constant rate (roughly) due South. I estimate the length at 500-1000 feet based on the distance away. Once it disappeared behind a tree, I never saw it emerge again. I even called where I work (approx. right under where this object seemed to be floating. Unfortuneately, my co-worker was not answering the phone, so I couldn't get her to go out and verify if it was a cloud or what. Is it possible that it was phenomena associated with the eclipse? Was I seeing a reflected corona or something, since it seemed to be 180 degrees out? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Also, did anyone else see anything similar? Thanks, dobe Dobe Doinat <dobe a eskimo.com> Snohomish, WA USA - Monday, October 07, 1996 at 07:56:21 (PDT)

On 27 September 1996, at 11PM A.S.T., an aurora in the shape of of jet's contrail was observed 75 degs above the nne horizon. This red band was about 5 degs long and 1 deg wide and did not move for at least 20 minutes despite other northern light activity nearby. I captured the phenomena on film with 85 mm lens at f/1.4 for 10 secs using 400 speed color print film. There are no known upper atmospheric rocket experiments conducted that day. The image on film is distinct and resembles somewhat a corona aurora display converging overhead but with no movement or structural change. Experts at the geophysical institute at UAF cannot explain the effect that I captured. The moon was one day past full (lunar eclipse occurred the night before). Some very high thin cirrus clouds were nearby with the moon about 45 degs away. It was not lens flair since the object was visible naked eye. Jan Curtis <jcurtis a gi.alaska.edu> Fairbanks, AK USA - Monday, October 07, 1996 at 21:33:36 (PDT)