The best I ever saw the Aurora was in northwest Ontario. The whole sky was alive. Reds, greens, and blues.
And I swear you could hear them sizzle. But that probably was just the skeeters, which were maneaters!
The Japanese are big on coming to Alaska to see the aurora. I don’t know how many actually get a good display during their visit, but each winter now about 5500 fly over direct charter to Fairbanks just for that. I make a point of checking the sky every night since I am out with the dog anyway, and this season has been kind of missing good aurora although we got comet Holmes and the Venus-Mars show fairly clear as well as the Geminids.