Was out walking the critters and looked up to scan for my favorite constellations, and lo and behold an Aurora Borealis in the night sky over our house!!!! A long greenish blue ribbon slowly undulating back and forth, it gets brighter and then dimmer, what a spectacular sight, especially since I'm in Colorado! Anyone here in the forum on the Front Range, and can anyone else see it in the western US?

Idk about western US, but I saw some last week here in Massachusetts. Quite beautiful, I was shocked at how missplaced and mystical it looked.

I see that all the time, even during the day. It may be the meds, though. :^) Seriously, I have seen it only once, but it was spectacular. AURORA BOREALIS Oh, roar a roar for Nora, Nora Alice in the night, For she has seen Aurora Borealis burning bright! A furor for our Nora! And for Aurora seen! For where throughout the summer Has our Borealis been? -Walt Kelly

Yeah, it was really weird, guess the solar flares are still are wrecking havoc with the magnetics.....

Listened to a clip on NPR, the scientists are having a fieldday watching & studying the flares. Havent seen it yet.Connecticut.

I see them almost ever night. Not so strange since I live in the north of Sweden. They are really beautiful, you never grow tired of watching them dance over the sky. A couple of weeks ago i saw the largest Aurora borealis I've ever seen. Thisone wasn't just a ribbon, It covered the entire sky. It looked like a green gloving overcast. That was cool.

When I lived in Alaska,I went to Wasilla High School and lived in Big Lake and Dutch Harbor(Fishing)and I used to go out at night and just SPACE on the Aura and sometimes I would be there for hours upon hours...The Best Magical Light show in the World at least non-man made...

Svaelt, that almost sounds like that Stepven King movie about all those trucks.... what the heck was that called? AC/DC did most of the music for it.... The whole sky glowed green like that! lol Anyone remember that movie?? Jen Ohhh Zhann, we were supposed to be able to see em here on the east coast but we got rain the whole time and couldn't see anything but water in our eyes...lol

Who needs fireworks when Nature does lightshows best.... You lucky stiffs! We haven't seen it over here yet. It's probably tha result of the solar storms we had a while back.

Jen: "Maximum Overdrive" One of the worst films ever made. And Mr. King would probably agree. He not only wrote it, he directed it as well. (Hey, they offered him a lot of money, would YOU turn it down just because you didn't know anything about directing a movie? :^)) It did have a nice soundtrack, though. :^) I think the fact that no one else has asked him to direct another movie speaks for itself. Great writers don't necessarily make great directors.

When I was young, maybe ten, we were camping in Jasper, Alberta. The locals promised that there would be a fantastic aurora that night. I stayed up as late as I could... fell asleep around one a.m. and saw nothing. The next morning everyone was talking about the fantastic display that occured at 0115 am. :>( I've got to see it some day. Those of you lucky folk that have, I've heard that sometimes you can actually hear it crackle! Is that true?

Yeah, we've even been able to see it in S.W. Washington St. I drive out of town a ways and park on a hill(about 4000ft.)with an unobstructed view of the Northern horizon, and away from the "light-pollution" of the city. It's been overcast and raining lately though, darn. The down side of all the flare activity is that it can be hazardous to fly because of increased exposure to solar radiation at high altitudes.

I'd love to be able to see them, someday. Hey, here in Jersey we have our own glowing sky. It's called radiation from nuclear waste dumps. Everything gets green and people walk around in a catatonic state after getting too close to them and...oh wait, that was a movie. Wait a sec, hey Nuke, when the lights are out and it's dark out, do you glow? Sorry Bro, just couldn't resist. I remember Maximum Overdrive, JC. My roommate and I watched in college whilst slamming down a case of bruha. All I remember of the movie is a scene where soda cans come flying out of a soda machine and drill some guy right in the head.

hahahahah that's the one!! And this big truck with a clown on it's grill.... LOL Love that soundtrack, is the only reason i watch the movie! LOL

Yeah the intense solar storms recently are responsible. When I lived in Colorado I use to watch the Northern Lights from 11 mile reservoir.

I've seen the AURORA BOREALIS from here on my way home from work at 7 a.m. ... beautiful sight!!

Gee, Boomer, you're so damn original... I never heard that one before! :-) When I first started this job, I had a couple of roommates. They "Really, Really" wanted to know what I did. So one day I brought home an old ammo can that I painted a grey, lead color. I threw on a couple of "Rad" labels to make it look even better. Inside was some sort of doohickey that I found at a salvage yard. I smeared it with the chemical in a Cyalume stick (those greenish glow sticks). I came home and said, "here, I brought you something from work. They both were grinning like mad, thinking I was bringing home ammo or weapons or something. They openned the can, saw the "glowing" gizmo and pretty much flew from the building. Even though I later told them it was just a joke, one roomate actually went to a doc worried about radiation exposure... but that's a whole other story...

Front of the truck was the Green Goblin. :c) If the clouds would move outta the darn way, I could see em here in WI. :c( But every show has been clouded in over here.

Nukeboy, it's true. Sometimes you can hear it, but that's not very often, and only when it's really cold.