have you witnessed an aurora borealis?
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I've seen the Aurora Borealis on a few occasions but always on a small scale covering just a part of the sky - mostly in Scotland.\n\nI'd love to go the the Arctic or Antarctic (Corona Borealis) and see it at it's best with the whole sky illuminated, that would be amazing.
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I did.  You had to go out after 3 AM, because otherwise the point at which the meteors were coming in from wasn't up yet.\n\nI saw probably 10 or 12 really good ones even though I live in the outskirts of a city.
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Yes.. One day i walking from school and this leprachaun came up to me to give me his bag of gold. Then both of us went to his rainbow and took a ride on it . THen i said bye to him and started walking back home . As i was walking , the Teletubies appreaded out of nowhere and started making wierd motions at me and laughing at me  . I was taken by surprise because I wasn't wearing anything wierd or anything like that. So i asked them why, When i did they said that there was a alien on top of my head making wierd faces and gave me a rabbit and dissapeared. ( I let the rabbit go)When i looked up i didnt see anything. Then all of a sudden i heard this LOUD noise coming from the nearby forest and when i looked towards it , a HUGE ship had materialized out of thin air and was making its way towards me. I got scared and started running but the aliens were coming closer . They started shooting at me .. WHen i looked to my front , it was raining cats and dogs. So.. it was either to go to the ship or be hit in teh ead with the animals. I chose the animals. As i was runig, this HUMONGOUS cat fell on e and i passed out. When i woke up i was in this wierd place (guess where) . and then i came online and decided to go to YAHOO ANSWERS and snwer this question.\nTHANK YOU!!
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Depending on how old you are, it could be just because of the 11-year "solar cycle".  Currently we are near the "solar minimum" which is the time of least magnetic activity on the sun.  In another 3 or 4 years the cycle will be on the upswing and more aurora activity will be visible all over the Earth. \n\n Another possibility is that the ever increasing amount of light-pollution makes objects in the night sky harder to see.
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I haven't. This could be caused by a local electromagnetic disturbance though.
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I've never seen one, but my son had an interesting experience which he's loathe to talk about to this day.  He was driving out to see a friend around ll:00 at night, when he saw a very large, very bright light in the sky above an empty field.  He became so frightened he had to pull over.  After what seemed like a few seconds, he continued on his way. When he arrived at his destination he found he'd been on the road for over an hour longer than it should have taken him to drive to his friend's.  He forgot all about it until the next time, months later, when, driving by the same field, he became unexplicably filled with terror.  He shook so hard he could barely drive.  He had this same irrational fear come over him every time he passed that field, so he simply found another route.  I encouraged him to try to find out more about it, but he says it's too scary & weird & he'd rather not investigate, preferring not to know what happened.  I do believe we are not alone in this infinitely vast universe.  I only wish I could prove it!  If there are ET's, I hope they show themselves in MY lifetime.  I'd love to know the truth!
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I seen a bright light at night moving in a zig zag motion, it made sharp angle cuts so it could not be anything from this planet...so it was a true UFO
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I have never seen a ufo, but every once in a while there is a small bluish purple dot in the sky that looks like a purple pink-blueish star, it flashes and is really odd. I looked at maps and everything, there are no little radio crappy shows, or anything. in fact it's a big field in nowhere, it's scary. I'm too chicken to drive out there and see what it is. It's creppy where I live.
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I haven't seen an actual alien but I did one time see something pretty strange.  It was a fourth of July and we were at my uncles house.  All of us were outside in the back yard watching the firework show that was going on in the city.  My uncle looked up at the stars and saw what looked like three stars that formed a triangle.  They were unusually bright.  He pointed it out to everyone and we were all looking at them when suddenly they zipped off in opposite directions.  It was the strangest thing.  All of us just kinda looked at each other and said, "Okay" and never spoke of it again.
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I lived in a remote rural area, several miles from any town. Usually the night sky was pretty dark. One night I woke up to see a very very bright blue light shining outside. I went to the window (facing west)  and looked out. I could tell the source of the light was coming from the other side of my house. It was so bright that the small trees in the yard made vivid shadows. I thought it was the moon, but I looked further south, and could see the moon. It was less than a quarter moon. \nI was startled at seeing this, and woke my husband to show him. He looked out the window, and said "someone must be burning brush", and went back to bed.\nMy next "moment of awareness" happened about 45 minutes later (according to my alarm clock), when my husband and I found ourselves standing outside our house on the lawn,  with me wearing my nightie, and him wearing his boxers which he wore to bed. We were barefoot, and the dew on the grass was SO COLD on my feet that it was painful.\n\nThe weirdest part is that we didn't investigate further.....we just went in to bed. Neither of us spoke of this incident for over two weeks. One day I remembered it, and asked my husband "Do you remember that night......."  He had no recollection of it until that moment, but his memories were as clear as mine.
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I have never witnessed a UFO, but I have had many paranormal experiences.\n\nAs a child the chandelier used to swing from side to side, and the radio would turn on by itself in the middle of the night.\n\nOne time on a camping trip I was walking back from the bathrooms at that moment right between day and night and I saw someone walk across the front of the site and stop behind a tree. So I figure one of the people is going to jump out and try to surprise me, so I pull out my flashlight, walk up to the tree, turn on the light, and there's no one there.\n\nOne time I was alone in a house, and I felt a presence. I looked at a mobile hanging motionless, and said, "If there is anyone else here, make the mobile spin." The next moment, the mobile began to spin.\n\nOne time I was driving into Ponca State Park to set up a large camping gathering, and the sides of the road were lined with spirits. All standing there, clearly visible to everyone, calmly welcoming us back.\n\nOn another camping trip, we felt a spirit near the bon-fire. We had a ring of 40 tiki-torches around the bonfire. It was a still and windless night, but all the tiki flames near the spirit bent in. One of the people in the circle had a fancy camera. After the campout she went to get the film developed, and all the photos from before the visitor turned out, but after that all the film was blank. She took the camera in to be repaired. The repairman asked if she'd been in a nuclear power plant. All the innards were fried from electromagnetism\n\nMy grandmother died while my niece was in utero. After my niece was born, she would look up at areas where no one was standing, and laugh and giggle. We all knew that she was looking at gramma, so we never showed her any pictures. Finally, at about a year old, she could speak, and my sister showed her the family photo album. My niece picked out her photo and said, "That's Old Gramma."
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I'm very much a realist, but I have one story I cannot expalin.\n\nI was watching what I thought was a helicopter off the coast of Maine.  It was hovering and slowly moving around an island roughly seven miles away.  It was late afternoon, so the light was fantastic and the air, for once, was very clear.\n\nThis object slid back and forth maybe 3000-4000 feet high (triangulate from the distance) and then it did two strange things:  it sort of oscillated in a tight radius back and forth, like lint getting sucked down a bath drain, and then it just winked out of sight.  It didn't exactly disappear all at once, rather, it kind of took a moment or two.  I thought it might had slipped into a fog bank, but there was no fog; I could see distant color in the sky.\n\nI don't think about this experience so much anymore.  But I do get chills when I do recall that day.  I have no explanation, and I offer no theories.  But that's my story.
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Aurora Borialis \n\nI'm not sure if it's spelled right, but you see it best in the winter and only at night.\n\nSue
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Before we can understand auroras, we need a few facts about the space around our Earth. There are many things in this space that we can't see.\n\nOne thing is the air we breathe, our atmosphere. It is really a mixture of several gases, mostly nitrogen and oxygen, with traces of hydrogen, helium and various compounds.\n \n\n\nA Field of Earth\nAnother thing we can't see is a magnetic field that surrounds the Earth. If you've ever played with a bar magnet and iron filings you've seen the curved patterns the filings form in the magnetic field. The next picture shows how the magnetic field around the earth's core is like the field of a bar magnet.\n\nThe Earth's "magnet" is deep in the core. Since we can't see the magnetic field, we draw lines to represent it. The field lines go into and out of the Earth around the Earth's magnetic poles. Where the lines are closest together the field is strongest. Where they are furthest apart it is weakest. Can you tell where the magnetic field is the strongest? Where is it weakest?   \n\n\nCharged Particles\nA third invisible thing in the space around the Earth is a plasma, made of lots of charged particles. There are always electrons and positive ions in the surrounding magnetic field. Charged particles in a magnetic field move in a special way: they are guided by the field. The particles travel along magnetic field lines as if they were wires, circling around the lines in a long spiral as they go. Charged particles are the "ammunition" of an aurora.\n \n\nSolar Powered Display\nThe short answer to how the aurora happens is that energetic electrically charged particles (mostly electrons) accelerate along the magnetic field lines into the upper atmosphere, where they collide with gas atoms, causing the atoms to give off light. But why does that happen? To find the answer, we must look further away, to the Sun. The spectacular, "great" auroras in "What do they look like?" are powered by what is called the solar wind.\n\nThe Sun also has an atmosphere and a magnetic field that extend into space. The Sun's atmosphere is made of hydrogen, which is itself made of subatomic particles: protons and electrons. These particles are constantly boiling off the Sun and streaming outward at very high speeds.  Together, the Sun's magnetic field and particles are called the "solar wind."\n\n This wind is always pushing on the Earth's magnetic field, changing its shape.  You change the shape of a soap bubble in a similar way when you blow on its surface. We call this compressed field around the earth the magnetosphere. The Earth's field is compressed on the day side, where the solar wind flows over it. It is also stretched into a long tail like the wake of a ship, which is called the magnetotail, and points away from the Sun.  \n\nSqueezing the Earth's magnetic field takes energy, just the way it takes energy to compress a balloon with air in it. The whole process is still not fully understood, but energy from the solar wind is constantly building up in the magnetosphere, and this energy is what powers auroras.\n\n\nThe Big Push\nSo we have the Earth's magnetosphere, with the solar wind squeezing the magnetosphere and charged particles everywhere in the field. Solar particles are always entering the tail of the magnetosphere from the solar wind and moving toward the Sun. Now and then, when conditions are right, the build-up of pressure from the solar wind creates an electric voltage between the magnetotail and the poles, like the voltage between the two terminals of a battery. It can reach about 10,000 volts! \n\nThe voltage pushes electrons (which are very light) toward the magnetic poles, accelerating them to high speeds, much like the electrons in a TV picture tube that accelerate to hit the screen. They zoom along the field lines towards the ground to the north and south, until huge numbers of electrons
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An aurora courtain (lights in the northern or southern sky) is a phenomenon that ocurrs when our sun is in a peak of activity.\n\nEveryday, the sun, through massive explosions, sends a huge stream of charged particles to space. These particles travel at really high speeds (close to the speed of light) and, thus, hold a lot of energy. This stream is called "Solar Wind". When the sun is having a period of high activity, this "wind" is particularly strong.\n\nWhen Solar Wind reaches Earth, our planet's magnetic field changes the direction of the Solar Wind, keeping it from getting to the surface, and sending it back to space. However, at the poles, both south and north, the Solar Wind is not rejected, because of the shape of Earth's magnetic field. Instead, the stream of particles falls down to Earth describing a circular motion around the poles.\n\nThere's, then, a point in which the solar wind around the poles reaches the outer atmosphere and the falling charged particles crash with the molecules that constitute air. These collisions release energy in the form of a flash of light. The collective effect of all the different flashes creates the lights in the sky.\n\nI hope that it helps.
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I haven't, but I have a friend who has seen one.\n\nHe talks about it all the time.  He has told me that it is one of the most amazing things he has every seen.\n\nInteresting, he has the same initials as you.
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Yes.  There is a magnetic field surrounding the earth that usually stops these.  This field is thin at the poles.  At the poles the solar weather interacts with the atmosphere and creates the Aurora Borealis.  If there is really intense solar  weather (usually ever 5 to 10 years) there will be radio blackouts, borealis closer to the equator, and satellite damage.