Posted on 08/25/2014 7:04:13 PM PDT by PastorBooks
Last night over the Pacific Ocean, somewhere South of the Russian peninsula Kamchatka I experienced the creepiest thing so far in my flying career.
After about 5 hours in flight we left Japan long time behind us and were cruising at a comfortable 34.000ft with about 4,5 hours to go towards Alaska.
We heard via the radio about earthquakes in Iceland, Chile and San Francisco, and since there were a few volcanos on our route that might or might not be going off during our flight, we double checked with dispatch if there was any new activity on our route after we departed from Hongkong.
Then, very far in the distance ahead of us, just over the horizon an intense lightflash shot up from the ground. It looked like a lightning bolt, but way more intense and directed vertically up in the air. I have never seen anything like this, and there were no flashes before or after this single explosion of light. Since there were no thunderstorms on our route or weather-radar, we kept a close lookout for possible storms that might be hiding from our radar and might cause some problems later on.
I decided to try and take some pictures of the night sky and the strange green glow that was all over the Northern Hemisphere. I think it was sort of a Northern Lights but it was much more dispersed, never seen anything like this before either. About 20 minutes later in flight I noticed a deep red/orange glow appearing ahead of us, and this was a bit strange since there was supposed to be nothing but endless ocean below us for hundreds of miles around us.
[Excerpt]
http://www.pbase.com/flying_dutchman/pacific_eruption
(Excerpt) Read more at pbase.com ...
Wow is this interesting.
Years ago, when listening to one of Art Bell’s call in shows about UFO’s (credibility sinking here, but hold on) a guy called in who was stationed on a Navy ship. One of those big ones.
He said the men on top of the ship with him and he all saw a light far off, deep down in the sea. It came up and out of the water and rose up into the night sky.
His Commanding officer called the ones who saw it in, spoke to them and told them never to speak of it, ever, to anyone. To forget what they saw and not to inquire further about it.
He felt, now it was years later and he was anonymous on a radio that would be alright.
Obviously global warming
Could it be........ The Sun?
Bill Cooper recounted something like that in Behold a Pale Horse I believe. I’ll check it out when I get home.
My guess is the lights at bottom of window is a reflection of lights inside the cabin and distorted by the multiple layers and angles at bottom of window. The red glow is probably from same internal reflection.
Take a look at the stars. That’s not earth down there.....
Will the picturologists be able to confirm that?
Interesting. Who is Bill Cooper? I wonder if that was him that night, calling anonymously.
I found that so interesting. I mean, would it be us? Or something else? So strange.
Failed USArmy rocket thingie that was capable of hitting targets 100 miles away ... thing blew up off coast of Alaska.
There is so much out there that we don’t know about.
There are books about “happenings” under the sea like this. My father used to read them all and was fascinated.
On August 26, 1883, Krakatoa exploded. Before it went, the sea in its vicinity was said to have turned bright red.
I believe this was even part of the movie Krakatoa, East of Java (1969).
"I should of paid for First Class." 
I woke up with the worse tequila hangover, 4 russian dwarves, one small pony, and a dog that kept scratching to go outside.
/johnny
/johnny
Yep, me too. 
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.