Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ttrdc!ttrda!tag
From: tag@ttrda.UUCP (Tom Gloger)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Bright Flash on the Horizon
Summary: Could the blue flash have been from copper?
Keywords: What Wazzat?
Message-ID: <254@ttrda.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 14:03:41 GMT
References: <920@uop.edu>
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Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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In article <920@uop.edu>, robert@uop.edu (Fred Flintstone) writes:
> Last night ... I was driving home ... and I saw a bright flash on the
> horizon ... in the blue end of the spectrum.
>
> Anyone know what it was that I saw?
>

A few years ago, during a thunderstorm, I observed a blue-green flash on the
horizon.  It lasted a noticeable length of time, but less than a second.  At
the same time, the red lights on the tops of the near-by high-tension towers
went out.  The flash was in the direction of a large "transformer farm" which,
I believe, is connected to the high-tension lines.

My theory is a large transformer bit the big one that night.  The lights stayed
off for a day or two, as I recall.


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   Tom Gloger        AT&T
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