now there's a blast from the past
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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“THAT EPISODE STILL FREAKS ME OUT!”
Enjoy! :)
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet | Hulu
http://www.hulu.com/watch/440824
The Twilight Zone, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet 1963 Full Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNNy172zofk
Guess the aliens are p*ssed off at us.
Who can blame ‘em.
LOL
now there's a blast from the past
we have our moments 
I truly thought it might be a volcano being born. It was HUGE!
I saw it as a typical bubblegum, Saturday matinee movie, but with a better than typical cast, including the recently late Maximilian Schell (d. 1 Feb, 2014).
I think its biggest problem was the underlying mood of the situation, which they approached as a typical 1960s Hammer studio science fiction, instead of the much broader look, like in Crack in the World (1965). Because Krakatoa was a planetary event, it didn’t really lend itself to small studio work.
big bingo
no tripod known....no image stabilization procedure yet put into use ..Nothing... could account for that
Everyone hears of such stories of seeing something but then told to shut-up.
Decades of service here, we ALL hear those stories but we never put any stock in them and never met anyone that was told to shut up. . .and those that we did meet that claim that, they did so with a little glint of humor in their eye. . .just to see who’s gonna buy their spiel.
You ever try to keep a group of young enlistee’s quiet?
Heck, their rumor-mill/gossip factory is far more prolific than any knitting club.
I saw ‘something’ one time, while flying, and instead of the usual “I didn’t see anything, did you?,” “’Nope, I didn’t see anything either” stuff you see in hollywood, we landed and told EVERYONE we could find about what we saw. We were never told to shut-up or keep quiet.
“Reading the Enemy’s Mind” by Paul H Smith, that is where my sighting is written about.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!
Lol. Well THAT makes sense.
Yes, I can see that would be one way to create drama and curiousity.
My guess is that it was underwater volcanic.
Of course, we also have to have the obligatory ‘It Was Aliens’ guy show up in the thread. In almost any thread, really.
“Of course, we also have to have the obligatory ‘It Was Aliens’ guy show up in the thread. In almost any thread, really.”
He’s the new Helen Thomas, lol.
Read Simon Winchester's book about Krakatoa's 1883 eruption, a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Other than the incredible incidental stories, boats ending up miles up stream, a half mile above sea level, etc., his thesis held that the eruption (August 27, 1883, BTW), was the first international disaster to become instant news throughout the world, following the laying of telegraphic cable worldwide.
Krakatoa EOJ was oddly enough, one of the great Cinerama experiments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa,_East_of_Java
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