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From: agranok@udenva.cair.du.edu (Alex B. Granok)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Bright Flash on the Horizon
Message-ID: <9729@udenva.cair.du.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 88 22:07:11 GMT
References: <920@uop.edu> <254@ttrda.UUCP>
Reply-To: agranok@udenva.UUCP (Alexander B. Granok)
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Summary: Depends where you live.

In article <254@ttrda.UUCP> tag@ttrda.UUCP (Tom Gloger) writes:
>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?
>>

There is a phenomenon known as the Green flash that appears on the horizon
over the ocean at sunset (maybe at sunrise, too).  It happens as the sun's
rays are refracted just the right amount and during that instant, the flash
appears.  

I don't know where you saw this, so that may not be the cause.  It could be
any number of things, then.  The list is probably as long as you want to make
it.

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Alexander B. Granok 
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