Originally Posted by
WalksIn2Trees
You might actually have had Aurora that night... It doesn't always look like ribbons in the sky, like you see in movies, sometimes it looks like the glow of a city in the distance, maybe faint enough that you question your eyes, because you only see it with your peripheral vision. Other times it's white streaks that shoot up from the northern horizon towards the apex, until you notice it though, you likely would miss it.
My first time seeing it, I thought it was the glow of a city. I was driving home from work heading west on I-88, and I kept catching the shifting of color with my peripheral vision, but looking directly at it, I couldn't see the shifting. I know now that it was the subtle shifting that caught my attention, but at the time I remember trying to think what city was in that direction, and there's not any. Because I kept looking at it, eventually my eyes tuned in to it, and I could see very subtle ribboning, and then it occurred to me what it was. It was only one but it was my first, so after getting off the highway, I pulled off the road next to a cow farm that was on a hill with northern exposure, killed the lights, shut off the car, and got out to look. With the lights off, I could see it much better, and I sat and watched for a good half hour before I got too cold. My second one was pink and green, but very faint, and the third one was the white streaks I described earlier. Last winter, going north to Plattsburgh the driver of the work-van and I were the only ones awake, when he noticed it very faint near the horizon and thought it was a town. I saw enough to tell him what it was, but he was driving and couldn't really get a good look at it.
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