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Thanks, but actually, I was referring to something different... Here is an exerpt of the original story which I picked up from a Google search using Columbia and red arc. This particular version is from Reuters, via CNN archive, and as you will note, well before Saturday's tragedy:

Thursday, January 23, 2003 Posted: 8:22 PM EST (0122 GMT)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -- Astronauts videotaping thunderstorms from the space shuttle Columbia captured what scientists said Thursday was a never-before-seen red glowing arc of light paralleling the curve of the Earth.

"Two nights ago over Africa was an extraordinary image. We saw a huge horizontal line of air glow which has been brightened by lightning below it which extended to several hundred miles horizontally and we feel it may be something new," said Dr. Yoav Yair.

Yair, project coordinator for Israeli experiments on board the Columbia in its current mission, said analysis would attempt over the next few weeks to confirm scientists' initial impression that the glow is neither a sprite nor an elf, two other electrical phenomena associated with thunderstorms.

"It is raw data hot from the oven," Yair said. "It's a grainy and noisy image but for scientists it's a treasure trove. That's what we like."

Scientists were excited by the news that astronauts Sunday captured the first-ever pictures of elves taken from space with a calibrated camera. The shuttle and its seven-member crew, which includes Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon, are on a 16-day science mission that began on January 16....

More and more, this is becoming a story of "principalities and powers" of Biblical proportions. P.S., In regards to the claim made that it was a punishment from "god"..... It should be noted that Satan is considered the prince of "air." God loves Israel, and those who offer protection....

Once more, given the story, isn't the patch on the phenomenal side of coincidental?