The Gasp Menagerie: Unexplained Red Lights Appear in the Pacific
Steve Barton
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I don’t like flying. Let me just get that out of the way. I’m not afraid of it. It does make me nervous, but that doesn’t really equate with fear. It’s uncomfortable as I’m a tall and wide guy. And It’s inherently inconvenient as you’re trapped in one place for up to hours on end.
It troubles me because it feels like we’re having an argument with gravity and God. “No, I know you wanted us stuck to the ground, but never mind that, we’re going to throw ourselves into the air in a big metal thing built by the lowest bidder and defy every law of physics that normally applies to us.”
Landing is always a relief because it feels like we’re admitting that we were wrong and apologizing by agreeing with the laws of physics by returning to the ground.
Don’t judge me.
That said, this story would have seriously turned my nerves into outright William Shatner on “Twilight Zone” panic.
The Daily Mail reports that a Dutch airliner was flying from Hong Kong to Anchorage, Alaska, at night recently. They were just south of the Russian Kamchatka peninsula when the Pacific, far below them, lit up bright red. It started with what looked like a lightning strike vertically, straight down from the sky to the area of the lights, despite there being no storms in the area.
Easy to spot with clear skies below them, this must have been a massive outburst of energy based on the scale of the photos seen in the story. An intercontinental airliner flies a high altitudes, but the phenomenon fills their window and photo frame.
The pilot, JPC van Heijst, was left disturbed simply because there seems to be no logical explanation. The current theory is a massive underground volcano, but there has never been a report of such lights sighted during such an eruption. Squid boats (that use LED lights) were also ruled out due to the scale of the event.
What do you think? Alien spacecraft launching from the ocean floor into space? Unknown, massive aquatic life? The Doctor punching the Tardis out of an undersea Dalek stronghold while it explodes?
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