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.
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In about 2007, flying from Europe to the US, between Iceland and the US, I saw a huge red-yellow glowing object in the ocean from at least 30,000 ft. Never knew what it was.
Flying over/on a thin layer of cirrus clouds, aircraft rotating red position light illuminating the cloud deck. I’ve seen this myself.
Multiple lights? Over a populated area, not where he said he was.
Pilot thought it would be cool to post and see what people come up with.
Who’s going to post the Alien guy with the bad hair from the history channel?
ME
Well done!
I call a prank. The stars are too distinct for 8 second and 30 second exposures handheld in a moving aircraft.
Not for a very wide lens. Was it handheld or rested on the panel? Smooth air up there also.
LOL!
It’s the ghost of KAL 007.
Second-hand smoke. Duh.
Somebody lit up up one of those methane leaks.
Hooka vapor.
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