Orange flashing cloud

I just saw this cloud over Edmonton Canada on my way back from the store tonight. It was a bright orange and it flickering like watching a fire happen it got dimmer after around three minutes and faded by the time I got home(about five minutes total). I don't know what it is but theres no storm right now and there was no sound to it so I don't know if it was a storm. Does anyone here have any idea what it was.

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That was probably the moon orbiter thing that was launched tonight in virginia. it was suppose to travel north east after launch.

www.space.com...

NASA will launch a new spacecraft tonight (Sept. 6) to unlock the mysteries of moon dust and the wispy lunar atmosphere, and you can watch the blastoff live online.

The space agency's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, nicknamed LADEE, is poised to liftoff atop a brand-new Minotaur V rocket from Wallops Island, Va., at 11:27 p.m. EDT (0327 Sept. 7 GMT) in what will be the first-ever lunar mission to launch from Virginia. Weather permitting, the nighttime launch may be visible to millions of observers along a wide swath of the U.S. East Coast that stretches from Maine to North Carolina.

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That's interesting but I'm not on the east coast.

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Most likely a flare. I see them pretty constantly, living next door to a military base.

Possibly, a ray of light from the setting sun hit the cloud high up, turning it orange. The cloud flickered because clouds low over the horizon happened to be passing through the sunbeam.

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I don't know the sun had set 3 hours before I saw this.

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I see that all the time around here.."ohio valley" do you have fracking wells around your area? that would be my guess if you do.. they burn off excess gas looks like a big torch up close but at night it can be seen as an orange flickering glow up to ten miles away, maybe more. looks realy cool the more clouds there are. when this first started around here i didnt know what to think so i just drove towards it until.. i came upon a huge well site burning off methane .

paradiselost333
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I see that all the time around here.."ohio valley"

Where exactly, if you don't mind me asking? I live in southern Indiana and have never seen anything like this.
As to the light, was it a steady light, or was it in bursts like lightning? It could have been heat lightning, do you know if there was any storms within around 100 miles from you?

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I don't think there's any fracking near the city but I know they do have to burn off methane near the landfill. I also think that near where I live has excess methane and sour gas underground but I'm not sure if the city burns that off but either way that would support my idea that it could be fire.