Posted on 11/29/2017 12:54:55 AM PST by Swordmaker
I am east in Reno. All we have are aircraft, a bit late for some.
Unknown weather phenomenon.
Nothing logically connected, st Elmo’s Fire pops to mind fir the trees.
Any idea what the current geomagnetic disturbance is?
I’ve heard tell of bizarre visual ground effects during certain geomag storms.
As for the sky disturbance, couldn’t tell you.
But in sci-fi thinking, you’re now infected with nanoparticle machines and the sparkling was visual artifacting of your vusual center being reformatted and scanned.
(I really should try to write some more.)
Too much booze?
http://spaceweather.com/
http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/
There may be an earthquake in your area soon too, weird sparkles associated with piezoelectric effects prior to a tremor.
That is indeed a weird story. I’m from Citrus Heights myself. We always knew Rancho Cordova was a weird place. ;)
Were the new Apple IPhones being thrown by frustrated users?
Drone dispersing smallpox or other bioweapons in droplets of liquid which evaporated and became lighter on the way down.
Perhaps a long burst of neutrinos from an unknown source was aimed right at your eyeballs.
I’ve seen pixie dust sparkles like that before, but it was during a bizarre and rapid cold snap that dropped the outside temperature from above freezing to -10 in the space of about four hours. The humidity crystalized out of the air and fell to the ground like glitter. Very striking, I would have enjoyed it if I hadn’t been walking without a heavy coat, hat or gloves because I hadn’t paid attention to the weather forecast and my car wouldn’t start. At the time I thought I was hallucinating due to being hypothermic. Several other bizarre things occurred, such as horns blowing in unoccupied cars. Evidently there’s an explanation for that too, relating to the rapid, extreme drop in temperature.
What an experience!
Did the Gaydar go off?
Gaydar probably goes haywire in the Bay Area, kind of like trying to use a magnetic compass at the North Pole.
Ack!
Oh yeah, I’d forgotten about that.
Thanks
“fifteen miles east.. BOTH reported they saw nothing at all! Strange. If these were meteors, they should have been visible over a wide area.”
Depends, the event may have been “behind” them to their point of view or off to the right.
And if it was test rockets being range detonated, we will never hear about it, it would be at lower altitude than meteor streaks, and a distance of fifteen miles would vastly change the viewing direction in that case.
I had not noticed the lobed nature of the "meteors" until I blew this photo up. . . but now I can see that there is a distinct tri-lobed pattern in the tail that may be caused by the flapping of wings obscuring the light of whatever is causing the streaming tail.
There were a lot more before we got the camera out. . . sometimes the trees were just covered with lights. Same on the right. Note the Blue White color.
To get these photos to show at all—they were completely black to the eye—I brought them into the Apple Preview App and used the Tools and pushed the "Exposure" control to the MAX and then brought the "Shadow" control up. I also increased "Sharpness" in each of them.
This may give you an idea of what they looked like before processing. This is the worst of them and I was unable to get anything from this one, which was supposed to have some of the "meteors" on it, rats:
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