Anyone live near Vegas?

[Makkah]

So my girlfriend talked to her mom on the phone tonight (who lives in Las Vegas), and apparently there was some weird ass flash of light covered with a blue aura in the sky at around 8 PM tonight. Cars pulled over on the side of the road, DJs reporting hundreds of calls about it, people freaking out thinkin it was nuclear attack or UFO's. Just wondering if any of our western browsers saw it, or heard about it? Wild.

rht

[Jenisi]

Don't see anything on any news websites online. Hopefully nothing major happened. Let us know if you find out what went down.

[TheRoseLady]

Originally posted by Makkah
So my girlfriend talked to her mom on the phone tonight (who lives in Las Vegas), and apparently there was some weird ass flash of light covered with a blue aura in the sky at around 8 PM tonight. Cars pulled over on the side of the road, DJs reporting hundreds of calls about it, people freaking out thinkin it was nuclear attack or UFO's. Just wondering if any of our western browsers saw it, or heard about it? Wild.

rht

This was Spungirl, she accidentally trained one of the surveillance cameras outside onto a passing blue car. She's really powerful like that. :yes:

[Chelle]

Could be this?

http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3887859

Bright Lights Over Las Vegas: Streak Satellite
Sep 23, 2005, 0-1:08 AM CDT

When the sun goes down at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base Thursday night, an obscure little satellite will blast off to begin its year-long mission for the U.S. military's research and development agency.

The Space Test Program-R1 project's Streak satellite carries a classified price tag and limited details about its underlying purpose. But the launch should be widely visible throughout central and southern California, perhaps as far inland as Arizona and Nevada, if weather conditions permit, when the Minotaur rocket roars into space to deploy its cargo.

Liftoff from the Space Launch Complex 8 pad located on Vandenberg's southern edge will occur during a window extending from 7:24 to 7:40 p.m. PDT (10:24-10:40 p.m. EDT; 0224-0240 GMT). The period opens nearly a half-hour after sunset.

Ascending skyward along a southerly trajectory over the Pacific, the slender white rocket has the potential to produce a spectacular "twilight phenomenon" display of green, blue, white and rose colors in expanding, twisting clouds. The cause: unburned fuel particles and water drops in the rocket's contrail freeze in the less dense upper atmosphere and get reflected by sunlight at high altitudes during launches timed just before sunrise or shortly after sunset.

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Originally posted by Makkah
Cars pulled over on the side of the road, DJs reporting hundreds of calls about it, people freaking out thinkin it was nuclear attack or UFO's.
rht

People are such drama queens.

[iomelindi]

*screams* the sky is falling!!

[crazymage]

All these new alien tv shows are probably there to prepare us !

[Makkah]

thanks Chelle. You rock, etc.

[SpunGirl]

Goddamit. I was driving south to Flagstaff when this happened, already well past Kingman on I-40. I miss all the good stuff!

-K

(I mean, TRL is right. Fear my powah!)

[Chelle]

Originally posted by Makkah
thanks Chelle. You rock, etc.

You're welcome. :D

Secretly I was hoping it was aliens. :(

[Makkah]

And the Pic of the Day features said halo:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050928.html

[Snapp]

I can see why people were a little spooked. I would be too if I saw that up in the sky out of no where.

[Showal]

That truly is an amazing picture, regardless of what it really is. Especially with Venus in the picture.

[Back]

Noctilucent. Cool, I learned a new word. Now I have to figure out how to work it into conversation...

[Janarth]

If I was just out on the boat, having a nice sunset cruise with some friends over a coupla beers, and saw that...

I'd immediatly think the apocalypse. FIRE UP THE ENGINE, WE"RE GOING AS FAR AWAY FROM CIVILIZATION AS WE CAN. I'd probably boot my weaker, less useful friends, and any competing alpha males...

[Neildo]

Well two days ago in my area in SoCal, we had some random, freak, thunder and lightning storms which is very rare, not to mention there was practically no rain along with it.

Yesterday it was super cold now today is super hot. Maybe that crazy thunder and lightning went up to Vegas.

- N

[SpunGirl]

No such luck, it's unseasonally hot here:(

-K

[Shari]

WTF. You drive to Flagstaff!?! You couldn't take another 3 hours and come see ME!?! <rips hair out>

[Terminator X]

If I was out alone at night and saw that thing without knowing wtf it was, I'd probably have a panic attack or some crap.

[Rainy Day]

Reminds me of one night when I was walking across campus after dark to my night class and I looked up to see this strange red streak across the sky. So I was like...oh man is it the apocalypse?! After class I learned from the news it was the northern lights. (Obviously not normally seen in those parts.) Only time I've ever seen that and I didn't get to enjoy it cause I was too busy freaking out. :scared:

We won't go into that other time when I was walking home from night class and saw a metorite that came so low down in the atmosphere I thought I was seeing an alien spaceship...

Signed,

Vivid Imagination