what's the craziest thing you've seen in the night sky?

Question

last year i saw a star brighten up like cepheid then take off. the moon rise is pretty cool.

Answer 1

This was like, over 30 years ago. My girlfriend and I were walking along this forest road at night when a meteor ripped through the atmosphere and was losing pieces of itself, so there were like all these sparks coming off it. It crossed behind the horizon in a second or two and then we actually heard what sounded like distant thunder. Since we would have heard about a big meteor strike, I guess it must have completely burned up in the atmosphere. But it was quite a light show. The most awesome thing I've ever seen, however, was the northern lights one time in Anchorage, Alaska. I had no idea!!!

Answer 2

Okay, now this is the craziest things I have ever seen in the sky. I was about 15 and talking to my friend on the phone while standing outside. I was watching what looked like Venus but it was in the wrong spot and a little bigger than Venus. It was further North than Venus was. I was very interested in astronomy at the time and often went to watch falling stars with my father and the first one I ever saw was a brilliant blue and orange and green that lasted all the way across the sky and was the largest my father had ever seen in his life. So the point of that is to let you know I KNEW that there was NOT suppose to be a star there. So I mentioned it to my friend. She went outside and could not see it. Judgeing from that the star was probably no more than a few miles away. But it wasn't actually a star of course. as I am watching it it almost triples in size and then goes back to its original size and then slightly smaller. Then it begins to move. By this time I was yelling for my brother who was 18 because I need a witness. It moved from almost 12 o'clock in the sky left until about 9 o' clock. then half way back at the same meagar speed and then it darts back to the position I first saw it in. I am not sure When he got the binoculars but we had them at that point. we watched as the bright white light had other lights come out from within it. Blue and green and white and red and yellow are the small lights I remember moving around the larger white light. Now my father worked at an air force base so I knew what our planes could do at they time and they could NOT move as these lights were moving. They were literally flying and swimming around and over and under the larger one. The worst part of this is. It seemed that they were just above land a mile away at the time. Growing up here we could see and hear where everything should be. These were right above a cow farm that was a miles away up on county line road a few mile west of my uncles house. We could always hear the cows up there every night all night long crying and mooing. but this night we barely heard anything. A single cow and nothing else. No jets, no planes, no cars, no engines of any kind.

Answer 3

Last weekend I had the opportunity to take a boat out onto a lake in the middle of Wisconsin at night. I saw a ton of satelites but what really was incredible were two falling stars that blazed for at least 10 seconds each, showering the sky with sparks.

Later, I saw the moon rise over the trees, I have never seen anything so intense . . . it was a moving experience.

Answer 4

The silhouette of a toy balloon drifting across the face of the moon. Birds and planes seen against the moon are pretty common, but a helium-filled toy balloon was pretty weird. It took me a moment to figure out what I was looking at.

Answer 5

A couple of years ago I was camping in Michigan, sleeping out under the stars (beautiful clear night). Suddenly something like told me to open my eyes and look up. I saw a round white object with a dark center zig-zag across the sky.Wow! UFO? Did they want me to see them?

Answer 6

Hi,

I saw a shooting star. That was the craziest thing I saw. I was young and thought some one on the moon dropped something.

Karl
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Answer 7

I believe my dog and I have seen a u.f.o. We both saw it hovering in the very early morning night sky. I know my dog saw it too because when the u.f.o. streaked across the sky like a meteor, his eyes and head followed its lights. I live near a large airport and am familiar with what is normal and what is not.

Answer 8

Craziest were the array of UFOs, mainly because I don't believe in interstellar-capable alien life.

Coolest, though, were the Perseid meteors, which I watched from midnight to 6 a.m. on one long overnight drive cross-country. They were never-ending and kept me awake all night.

Answer 9

I have memory of seeing thousands of orangish meteors. I don't know if that was a dream, but it sounds like quite the meteor shower.

Other than that, it is the Milky Way from a truly dark sky....Its enchanting and looks like a glowing cloud, but that doesn't do it justice....It was one of the most wonderful things I have ever seen.

Answer 10

you enable in basic terms 2 thoughts. those being; "Did we see it or are you loopy?" i did no longer see it or perhaps in spite of the indisputable fact that there are particularly some loopy Texans, I hesitate to call you loopy so enable's only say that there is approximately 500 miles or greater between the place I stay in North Texas and the place you reside in South Texas and enable it bypass at that. (i do no longer doubt which you observed what you describe).