Ermintruder
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all...
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I've seen the Aurora Boealis from Arctic Canada, extensively, and (briefly) in Scotland. This was entirely-different from that. Not a shimmering glimmer, no fade-rippling irridescence...more of an off-white extended flash (still nothing like my long-ago report of the super-bright longflash from source unknown).Those flashes over northern Scotland seem like Aurora Borealis - but surely the folks there would recognise that.
Shall watch the video tomorrow. I say lightning's unlikely because of the following aspects (please, disagree, if you've a counter to these points)Possible meteor filmed in Scotland. Could it not just be lightning? Video at link.
- Far too wide a geographic spread experiencing the effect simultaneously, thus rendering a conventional thunderstorm to being an unfeasible source
- No reports of thunder
- Rain/overcast, but no overall storm conditions as such (nor particularly high winds, to productively transport a putative storm-cell...and; if such a source theory were to hold true, it would've needed to have occured via the prevailing westerlies....predicating a massive storm-front, stretching the whole length of Scotland. An unreported (? presumably?) and remarkably short-lived one, too.
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